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The Illusion of Psychotherapy

Author : William Epstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351293184
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Illusion of Psychotherapy written by William Epstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Illusion of Psychotherapy William Epstein asserts that psychotherapy is probably ineffective and possibly harmful. He maintains that there is no credible clinical evidence that psychotherapy is effective in handling personal or social problems, or that it is more effective than other modes of treatment. The theories that underpin clinical practice remain speculative and their influence over social policy are more ideological than scientific. A skeptical public and its government would be better served, Epstein says, by credible evidence of outcomes. His analysis focuses on whether psychotherapy is effective against a variety of unwanted behaviors, such as drug addiction and depression. The nation's social problems are due to the inadequacies of its core social institutions: families, communities, education, and jobs. Social problems emerge because many people are brought up in deficient families, live in dangerous communities, lack education and jobs, and have few or no routes out of poverty. Poor people are exposed to unrelenting risks to their physical and mental health. It is possible to remedy most deficiencies through human services that compensate for these failed social institutions. This position is inevitably unpopular in psychotherapeutic circles and in light of current political preferences since it requires massive new resources and extensive redistribution of existing resources. The extent of society's problems reflects the degree to which deficits in basic social institutions have been tolerated. Basic services have been lacking while psychotherapy diverts our impulse to address poverty into ineffective strategies. In a challenging conclusion, Epstein urges society to solve its problems by confronting the reality implied by the failure of psy-chotherapy's minhnal interventions: to acknowledge that more is necessary to resolve social need. This leads to general theoretical concerns about theory as such. The Illusion of Psychotherapy will be compelling reading for psychologists, psychotherapists, social scientists, and policymakers.

Illusion and Disillusionment

Author : Stanley Teitelbaum
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765705174
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Illusion and Disillusionment written by Stanley Teitelbaum and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mourning the loss of core illusions and coping with the impact of disillusionment are critical issues in psychotherapy. In this informative and readable book, Teitelbaum explores this therapeutic issue in depth from a developmental, theoretical, and clinical perspective and emphasizes its particular importance in the treatment of depressed and narcissistic patients.

Respect for Thought

Author : Tobias G. Lindstad
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030430669
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Respect for Thought written by Tobias G. Lindstad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and provides an overview of the Norwegian psychologist Jan Smedslund's life work on Psycho-logic. His contributions to science have been radical not only in challenging the empirical foundation of psychology, but also in seeking to develop a viable alternative. This book brings together various reflections on his key contributions from the 1960s to the present day. The volume features three chapters by Jan Smedslund, offering his updated views on psychological science and psychotherapy. It also features contributions from several scholars that critically evaluates his legacy. His seminal ideas are discussed, revised and expanded upon and the questions raised are put in relevant historical and interdisciplinary context. Respect for Thought is a valuable resource for psychological researchers, historians of psychology, cultural psychologists, critical psychologists, theoretical psychologists, clinical psychologists and psychotherapists, social scientists, philosophers of psychology, and philosophers of science.

Illusion and Reality

Author : David Smail
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429914733
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Illusion and Reality written by David Smail and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer. Instead, anxiety and depression are described as perfectly rational responses to difficulties in the sufferer's world, experienced subjectively by that person. An essential contrast is drawn between objective conceptions of normality (what reality ought to be as per commercial and other objectifying sources) and the reality of the individual's subjective experience of the world (abuse, unemployment, and so on). Chapters include tackling the myth of normality; examining shyness; and analysing the way in which assumptions behind the use of language can foster anxiety and depression. The book's primary purpose is to explain the meaning of anxiety as experienced by the sufferer. These insights also lead to a view, by way of secondary purpose, that the role of the therapist is not in 'curing' the individual, but rather to negotiate demystification and to provide insight into the effects of the problems in the sufferer's world, based on the sufferer and the therapist's shared subjective understanding.

The Zen of Therapy

Author : Mark Epstein, M.D.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593296621
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Zen of Therapy written by Mark Epstein, M.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A warm, profound and cleareyed memoir. . . this wise and sympathetic book’s lingering effect is as a reminder that a deeper and more companionable way of life lurks behind our self-serious stories."—Oliver Burkeman, New York Times Book Review A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein reflects on one year’s worth of therapy sessions with his patients to observe how his training in Western psychotherapy and his equally long investigation into Buddhism, in tandem, led to greater awareness—for his patients, and for himself For years, Dr. Mark Epstein kept his beliefs as a Buddhist separate from his work as a psychiatrist. Content to use his training in mindfulness as a private resource, he trusted that the Buddhist influence could, and should, remain invisible. But as he became more forthcoming with his patients about his personal spiritual leanings, he was surprised to learn how many were eager to learn more. The divisions between the psychological, emotional, and the spiritual, he soon realized, were not as distinct as one might think. In The Zen of Therapy, Dr. Epstein reflects on a year’s worth of selected sessions with his patients and observes how, in the incidental details of a given hour, his Buddhist background influences the way he works. Meditation and psychotherapy each encourage a willingness to face life's difficulties with courage that can be hard to otherwise muster, and in this cross-section of life in his office, he emphasizes how therapy, an element of Western medicine, can in fact be considered a two-person meditation. Mindfulness, too, much like a good therapist, can “hold” our awareness for us—and allow us to come to our senses and find inner peace. Throughout this deeply personal inquiry, one which weaves together the wisdom of two worlds, Dr. Epstein illuminates the therapy relationship as spiritual friendship, and reveals how a therapist can help patients cultivate the sense that there is something magical, something wonderful, and something to trust running through our lives, no matter how fraught they have been or might become. For when we realize how readily we have misinterpreted our selves, when we stop clinging to our falsely conceived constructs, when we touch the ground of being, we come home.

Illusion

Author : Michael Jacobs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1861562098
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Illusion written by Michael Jacobs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ways we know, think and believe about a whole variety of key areas - different forms of discourse, psychotherapy as well as religion - have much more in common than is usually perceived. Through a series of fascinating parallels running across different disciplines, Jacobs demonstrates the possible analysis of modes of thinking and belief - from intuitive pre-thinking, through authoritative-driven thinking and belief, and personal and polymathic knowledge, to unknowing, the last concept being one that is shared by Bion, Winnicott and major mystical tradition. Using this theoretical model the book provides a map to how clients and indeed therapists might think and believe, suggesting ways in which they may be supported as they shift through different modes, with all the anxiety that disillusionment brings.

Art Therapy and Political Violence

Author : Debra Kalmanowitz
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583919552
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Art Therapy and Political Violence written by Debra Kalmanowitz and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With accounts from Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Israel and South Africa, this book vividly illustrates the therapeutic power of art making and art therapy in helping individuals, families and communities cope with experiences of political violence.

Empathy Reconsidered

Author : Arthur C. Bohart
Publisher : Washington, DC : American Psychological Association
ISBN 13 : 9781557984104
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Empathy Reconsidered written by Arthur C. Bohart and published by Washington, DC : American Psychological Association. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book is intended] for clinicians, theoreticians, and researchers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).

FREUD

Author : FREDERICK. CREWS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781257135
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book FREUD written by FREDERICK. CREWS and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Practicing Psychotherapy in Constructed Reality

Author : Stephen Bacon
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498552277
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Practicing Psychotherapy in Constructed Reality written by Stephen Bacon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Practicing Psychotherapy in Constructed Reality: Ritual, Charisma, and Enhanced Client Outcomes, Stephen Bacon charts a radical and provocative new direction forward for psychotherapy. Based on the research finding that techniques have no inherent power, and the insights of constructionism, Bacon explores new ways of understanding therapeutic rituals, therapist charisma, and client-centered therapy. Special emphasis is given to an analysis of the work of master therapists, and all of the concepts are illustrated with numerous clinical examples. Finally, Bacon develops a geography of constructed reality which pragmatically supports deliberate practice and therapist mindfulness.

Our Last Great Illusion

Author : Rob Weatherill
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845405854
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Our Last Great Illusion written by Rob Weatherill and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapy may be mad,' declares Rob Weatherill in this outspoken volume. Therapy here means particularly psychotherapy and counselling, but should be also taken to signify the universal logic of the post-modern therapeutic culture of well-being, happiness and enjoyment. More and more people want to believe in therapy who have lost belief in anything else. Counselling and therapy increasingly inform all human interaction. The dominant ethos is a holistic one. This book aims to refute, primarily through the prism of modern psychoanalysis and key theorists like Baudrillard, Levinas, Lyotard, Paz, Steiner, Reiff as well as Žižek, the fashion for a return to a pre-Cartesian ideal of harmony and integration. On the contrary, there is something monstrous, something excessive, that Freud termed the death drive, at the heart of the Real upon which ordinary reality, so to speak, rests. Enlightenment thought, in which we in the West in particular are caught, is entirely incapable of going beyond the ideal humanist version of man - our last great illusion.

The Future of an Illusion

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554810655
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book The Future of an Illusion written by Sigmund Freud and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, declared that religion is a universal obsessional neurosis in his famous work of 1927, The Future of an Illusion. This work provoked immediate controversy and has continued to be an important reference for anyone interested in the intersection of philosophy, psychology, religion, and culture. Included in this volume is Oskar Pfister’s critical engagement with Freud’s views on religion. Pfister, a Swiss pastor and lay analyst, defends mature religion from Freud’s “scientism.” Freud’s and Pfister’s texts have been updated in Gregory C. Richter’s translations from the original German.

Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Author : Colin Feltham
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446247678
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy written by Colin Feltham and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative new textbook examines the critical debates around key topics in counselling and psychotherapy. In nine sections including Everyday Counselling Practice, Training and Curriculum Issues, and Counselling, Society and Culture, Colin Feltham explores 60 provocative questions central to counselling training and practice. Ranging from more mainstream subjects like unconditional positive regard, ethics and supervision to broader social or philosophical issues such as employment concerns and the debate on assisted suicide, entries include: - Why have we focused on core theoretical models? - What are the pros and cons of short-term, time-limited counselling? - What′s wrong with CBT? - Where is research taking us? - Is statutory regulation a good and inevitable development? - Are there limits to personal change in counselling? Each section includes questions for reflection, case studies and student exercises. This comprehensive, student-friendly text is a useful resource for lecturers to stimulate seminar discussion, and for all trainees wishing to write essays or generally develop their critical thinking in counselling and psychotherapy.

Theaters Of The Mind

Author : Joyce McDougall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135888280
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Theaters Of The Mind written by Joyce McDougall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the theatre as a central metaphor, this text provides a flexible framework to explore the psychic realities of the characters within us. Case studies underscore how different kinds of patients construct particular fantasies as a response to the pain of earlier life scenarios.

The Future of an Illusion

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Future of an Illusion written by Sigmund Freud and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud discusses religion's origins, development, and its future. He provides a psychoanalysis of religion, which he views as a false belief system.

The Future of an Illusion - The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 15

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Blumenfeld Press
ISBN 13 : 9781447426097
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Future of an Illusion - The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 15 written by Sigmund Freud and published by Blumenfeld Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Enchantments of the Clinic

Author : Carl P. Ellerman
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 0765707802
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Enchantments of the Clinic written by Carl P. Ellerman and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pragmatic existential therapist exposes a suggestive underworld of clinical experience, not only disclosing direct experience of the erotization of the clinic, the erotization of the clinician, and the erotization of clinical confession, but also showing by example that these enchantments facilitate psychological healing if managed well. Addressing clinical and cultural concerns, the philosophically-minded dialogical therapist also offers a vigorous critique of the clinical nihilism that defines psychotherapeutic practice in the postmodern clinic.