The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy - Couverture souple

Szasz, Thomas Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0815602294 ISBN 13 : 9780815602293

Editeur : Syracuse University Press, 1988

Synopsis

In the Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Thomas Szasz describes psychotherapy as a social action, not as healing. Conceived in this way, psychoanalytic treatment is characterized by its aim--to increase the patient's knowledge of themself and others and hence freedom of choice in the conduct of their life; by its method--the analysis of communications, rules, and games; and lastly, by its social context--a contractual, rather than a therapeutic, relationship between analyst and the one being analyzed. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis remains one of the most concise, precise, and lucid expositions of the nature, possibilities, and limitation of psychoanalytic treatment to be found anywhere.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, The Manufacture of Madness, Ideology and Insanity, Ceremonial Chemistry, The Myth of Psychotherapy, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, and The Medicalization of Everyday Life, all published by Syracuse University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Syracuse University Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0815602294
• ISBN 13: 9780815602293
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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