| Description |
1 online resource (126 pages) |
| Contents |
Illnesses and problems; Psychiatric treatments -- The patient's willingness to undertake psychotherapy -- The personality qualifications of the psychotherapist -- The meaning of psychotherapy -- The scope of psychotherapy -- The patient-therapist rapport -- Definitions of different aspects or methods of psychotherapy -- Psychotherapeutic influences -- Remarks on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy -- Symptomatic or non-specific psychotherapy -- Rational psychotherapy -- Psychotherapy and habit formation -- Timing of recommendations or of any statements by the psychotherapist -- Factors entering into successes and failures of psychotherapy -- What helps in psychotherapy? -- Therapeutic results obtained with different methods of psychotherapy -- When may psychotherapy be safely discontinued? -- Is psychotherapy a science? |
| Summary |
"This small book has a big goal: to acquaint the reader with the meaning, scope and basic steps in psychological treatment. Dr. Katzenelbogen's unique and appealing approach is not to survey the innumerable contemporary schools of psychological theory, with their conflicting modes of therapy--but to describe the vital concept of psychotherapy which guides his own successful practice. Thus the reader will find in this book very little academic analysis--there are few references to medical and psychiatric literature--only plain answers to everyday questions in everyone's mind about this fascinating and--to most of us--"mysterious" new branch of medicine: When should a patient consult a psychotherapist? Exactly what happens in the psychotherapeutic session? Is all psychotherapy necessarily Freudian? What determines the success or failure of treatment? When may psychotherapy be safely discontinued? In answering these and countless similar questions, in language we can all understand, Dr. Katzenelbogen's book provides a welcome, down-to-earth antidote to the excesses which mar so much psychiatric writing, in both the professional field and the journalistic "inspirational" one"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO) EBSCO |
| Subject |
Psychotherapy.
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Psychotherapy
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Psychotherapy
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Electronic book
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