Psychotherapeutic Conspiracy

ISBN: 9780876684887

定价: 75.00

内容简介

For the first 1 O0 years of psychotherapy??? the goal has been to
understand the nature of emotional disturbance. However???
as this book shows??? the basic curative factor in today s
multitude of psychotherapies is not the pursuit of the
underlying truths of emotional disorders. To the contrary???
therapists are offering patients a variety of fabrications and
defenses designed to falsify and preclude the realization of
the painful emotional truths that form the basis of mental
suffering. Psychotherapy??? be
vention??? encounter group??? or
it psychoanalysis??? crisis inter-
behavior modification??? offers
\"cure\" through lies and barriers??? rather than through genuine
insight.
The published material in the field of psychotherapy???
discussed in the first section of this volume??? is indeed cause
for alarm. It provides us with every reason to believe there
has been an unrecognized unconscious collusion between
patients and therapists that is detrimental to the curative
process while providing some measure of pathological satis-
faction for both participants to treatment.
The sources and manifestations of this inevitably human
conspiracy become clear when we turn??? in the second part of
the book??? to the origins of modern-day psychotherapy and
psychoanalysis--to the painful struggles of Sigmund Freud