The Analysand's Tale - Couverture souple

Morley, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1855754371 ISBN 13 : 9781855754379

Editeur : Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Most accounts of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have been written by therapists, from a professional point of view. May such accounts alone be an authentic history of what occurred between the therapist and the patient? Would the patients' accounts be as valid as those of the therapists? In this book the published stories of several analysands over 100 years have been collected for purposes of comparison; some have been written by therapists in training, but others are by patients not involved in the profession. A number are complaints about malpractice, or of failures to make a difference to their condition, and a common factor in most has been a discordant agenda between analyst and analysand. Where analysands have felt that they have gained transforming benefit from the therapy, those gains are frequently ascribed to the relationship with the therapist, rather than the practice or technique which they may have criticized. Collected together they make stimulating reading and raise interesting issues about the nature of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and the healing function of the process.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Morley was a couple and individual therapist, and was Principal Lecturer at Hatfield Polytechnic before becoming Director of The Family Welfare Association until he retired. He then continued his work with couples in private practice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1855754371
• ISBN 13: 9781855754379
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 326
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible