The Psyche in the Modern World : Psychotherapy and Society /

Warnecke, Tom,

The Psyche in the Modern World : Psychotherapy and Society / Tom Warnecke. - London : Karnac Books, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (205 pages) - The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; UKCP SERIES PREFACE; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Psyche and Agora: the Psyche at the crossroads of personal and societal contexts; CHAPTER TWO The politics of intelligence: working with intellectual disability; CHAPTER THREE Clinical snobbery-get me out of here! New clinical paradigms for children with complex disturbances; CHAPTER FOUR Why aren't we educating? Psychotherapy, psy-culture, and the psy-ber world; CHAPTER FIVE Psychotherapy, relationality, and the Long Revolution. CHAPTER SIX Human-based medicine-theory and practice: from modern to postmodern medicineCHAPTER SEVEN Routes out of schizophrenia; CHAPTER EIGHT Counting the cost; CHAPTER NINE How broader research perspectives can free clients and psychotherapists to optimise their work together; INDEX.

The Psyche in the Modern World sets out to open consulting room doors and bring the concept of the Psyche, and its main advocate, the psychotherapy discipline, into public space and into the realm of interdisciplinary discourse. A culture of carefully guarded clinical confidentialities inadvertently turned the consulting room into a proverbial ivory tower which has done much to obscure the psychotherapeutic body of knowledge and contributed to the myths and misinformation that surround and veil psychotherapy in the public space. This book redresses the balance and confronts some challenging, a.



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Counseling psychology.
Psychotherapy--Social aspects.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic interpretation.
Psychotherapy--methods
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychotherapeutic Processes
Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Sociological Factors


Electronic Books.

RC480 / .P793 2015