How Talking Cures

Revealing Freud's Contributions to All Psychotherapies

AvLee Jaffe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Sigmund Freud repeatedly revised his understanding of how our minds work, how to understand mental illness, and how to relieve emotional, psychological suffering. With each revision, however, he did not methodically integrate previous ideas with newer ones. In How Talking Cures: Revealing Freud's Contributions to All Psychotherapies, a careful review of his concepts at each stage of his thinking reveals six different ways that talking cures—six distinct generic modes of therapeutic action by which all present-day psychotherapies work. Lee Jaffe demonstrates how these therapeutic actions can link treatment recommendations to individual diagnoses, and how they function during treatment itself. Different views of how psychoanalytic treatments work are analyzed according to their emphasis or de-emphasis of these six modes of therapeutic action. As a result, comparisons of all approaches to talking cures, and decisions about the choice of treatment for a given patient can be grounded in an understanding of the essential ways that each therapeutic procedure works, rather than an allegiance to what providers happened to be taught during their training.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-08-20
Mått:162 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:313 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Dialog-on-Freud
Antal sidor:114
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781442239890

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Lee Jaffe is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center. He is also clinical psychologist as well as professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. He maintains a private practice for the treatment of children, adolescents, adults, and couples.

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Jaffe offers a brief but brilliant account of the ways in which the elements of Freudian therapeutic action play out in both individual and couples therapy. Jaffe identifies six generic modes of therapeutic action in the writings of Freud: direct support, introjection, catharsis, insight, identification, and working through. These six modes account for the change process in psychoanalysis, and some combination of them accounts for the mutative process in most psychotherapies, including the popular cognitive-behavioral therapy. The brevity of this account of psychotherapeutic action—the book comprises six chapters (one an introduction) plus a preface and a conclusion—makes it eminently suitable for teaching mental health professionals, whether psychoanalytically inclined or not. Students of psychology, psychoanalysis, and social work will find this an indispensable introduction to diagnosis and treatment. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates throufh faculty and professionals; general readers.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface1. Introduction 2. Six Generic Modes of Therapeutic Action 3. Diagnosis and Therapeutic Action 4. Individual Clinical Treatment Illustration5. The Treatment of Couples6. Deconstructing Analytic Concepts of CureConclusionReferencesIndexAbout the Author