The Mirror and the Hammer: Challenging Orthodoxies in Psychotherapeutic Thought - Brossura

Spinelli, Ernesto

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1412901782 ISBN 13: 9781412901789

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002

Riassunto

`It is surely worth reading, not only by the author's fellow psychiatrists, but also by psychologists in general' - Contemporary Psychology

`I found this book a joy to read. Each chapter sets out the orthodoxy in question, then proceeds to explain lucidly the author's difficulties with this orthodoxy and to suggest an alternative way of looking at the issues' - Self and Society

Psychotherapy's influence seems all pervasive today. But to what end? Is helping people really therapy's main mission? This provocative book explores the alternatives to psychotherapeutic orthodoxies on such vital issues as sexuality; the self; the unconscious; creativity; and the dilemma of evil. Erensto Spinelli challenges psychotherapy, asking if it has retreated from its early promise of being a pivotal agent in our attempts to discover what it means to be human, in exchange for its current role as a pacifier of personal and social unease.

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Recensione:

`It is surely worth reading, not only by the author's fellow psychiatrists, but also by psychologists in general' - Contemporary Psychology

`I found this book a joy to read. Each chapter sets out the orthodoxy in question, then proceeds to explain lucidly the author's difficulties with this orthodoxy and to suggest an alternative way of looking at the issues' - Self and Society

L'autore:

Ernesto Spinelli is Professor of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Counselling Psychology and Academic Dean of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent's College, London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1412901782
• ISBN 13: 9781412901789
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 204