Beyond Psychotherapy

Author : Barnaby B. Barratt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429778317
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Psychotherapy written by Barnaby B. Barratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst, Barnaby B. Barratt illuminates a new perspective on what it means to open our awareness to the depths of psychic life and restores the radicality of genuinely psychoanalytic discourse as the unique science of healing. Starting with an incisive critique of the ideological conformism of psychotherapy, Barratt defines the method of psychoanalysis against the conventional definition, which emphasizes the practice of arriving at useful interpretations about our personal existence. Instead, he shows how a negatively dialectical and deconstructive praxis successfully ‘attacks’ the self-enclosures of interpretation, allowing the speaking-listening subject to become existentially and spiritually open to hidden dimensions of our lived-experience. He also demonstrates how the erotic deathfulness of our being-in-the-world is the ultimate source of all the many resistances to genuinely psychoanalytic praxis, and the reason Freud’s discipline has so frequently been reduced to various models of psychotherapeutic treatment. Focusing on the free-associative dimension of psychoanalysis, Barratt both explores what psychoanalytic processes can achieve that psychotherapeutic ones cannot, and considers the sociopolitical implications of the radical psychoanalytic ‘take’ on the human condition. The book also offers a detailed and compassionate pointer for those wanting to train as psychoanalysts, guiding them away from what Barratt calls the ‘trade-school mentality’ pervading most training institutes today. Groundbreaking and inspiring, Beyond Psychotherapy will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and all other therapists seeking a radically innovative approach. It will also be a valuable text for scholars and students of psychoanalytic studies, social sciences, philosophy and the history of ideas.

Author : Erving Polster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351295748
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Therapy written by Erving Polster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Therapy, Erving Polster examines the role of "life focus" in three of society's most familiar activities: ordinary conversation, the arts, and religion. He shows the life focus movement to be an indivisible complement to just simply living. In proposing a paradigm shift from psychotherapy's priority for changing people's troubled lives into the complementary purpose of illuminating their lives, the author invites the participation of many people who do not seek remedial treatment for emotional or psychological problems. Polster incorporates a broader scenario for enhancing attention through community groups, showing that the convergence of people's minds on commonly important life themes creates enlightenment. This interlocked focus amplifies the ensuing conversational content and creates a meditation-like absorption. This kind of pointed focus, argues Polster, has the power to colour the lives of the participants. This work offers rationale and design for life focus community groups, and also creates a heightened identity for the life focus movement, providing other foundational ideas that help to unify diverse approaches. Mental health professionals will benefit from its wealth of specific exercises and instructions for program design. Polster provides leaders and group members with a well-rounded perspective on the basics of personal enlightenment and communal belonging.

Author : Nancy A. Bridges
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765703446
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Beyond the Comfort Zone in Psychotherapy written by Nancy A. Bridges and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text aims to help therapists to engage more deeply with their patients while maintaining appropriate boundaries. Using clinical examples from her own practice, Bridges (psychiatry, Harvard Medical School) addresses issues such as sexual attraction, exceptional patient requests, and the risks and rewards of self-revelation. The volume concludes with a description of a model for individual supervision and consultation for therapists and trainees. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Anne Wilson Schaef
Publisher : Dissertation.com
ISBN 13 : 9780595150533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science written by Anne Wilson Schaef and published by Dissertation.com. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is presented in three sections: I. “The rise and demise of a psychotherapist,” a personal story of concluding that the scientific assumptions on which it is based prevent psychotherapy from facilitating true healing and is institutionalized co-dependence; II. a discussion of the living in process model developed by Schaef to facilitate true healing at all levels of being and; III. a philosophical exploration of mechanistic and post modernist science and their relationship to the healing professions.

Author : Stanislav Grof
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873959537
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Brain written by Stanislav Grof and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Brain seriously challenges the existing neurophysiological models of the brain. After three decades of extensive research on those non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by psychedelic drugs and by other means, Grof concludes that our present scientific world view is as inadequate as many of its historical predecessors. In this pioneering work, he proposes a new model of the human psyche that takes account of his findings. Grof includes in his model the recollective level, or the reliving of emotionally relevant memories, a level at which the Freudian framework can be useful. Beyond that is perinatal level in which the human unconscious may be activated to a reliving of biological birth and confrontation with death. How birth experience influences an individual's later development is a central focus of the book. The most serious challenge to contemporary psycho-analytic theory comes from a delineation of the transpersonal level, or the expansion of consciousness beyond the boundaries of time and space. Grof makes a bold argument that understanding of the perinatal and transpersonal levels changes much of how we view both mental illness and mental health. His reinterpretation of some of the most agonizing aspects of human behavior proves thought provoking for both laypersons and professional therapists.

Author : Barnaby B. Barratt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317355970
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Psychoanalysis written by Barnaby B. Barratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only by the method of free-association could Sigmund Freud have demonstrated how human consciousness is formed by the repression of thoughts and feelings that we consider dangerous. Yet today most therapists ignore this truth about our psychic life. This book offers a critique of the many brands of contemporary psychoanalysis and psychotherapy that have forgotten Freud's revolutionary discovery. Barnaby B. Barratt offers a fresh and compelling vision of the structure and function of the human psyche, building on the pioneering work of theorists such as André Green and Jean Laplanche, as well as contemporary deconstruction, feminism, and liberation philosophy. He explores how ‘drive’ or desire operates dynamically between our biological body and our mental representations of ourselves, of others, and of the world we inhabit. This dynamic vision not only demonstrates how the only authentic freedom from our internal imprisonments comes through free-associative praxis, it also shows the extent to which other models of psychoanalysis (such as ego-psychology, object-relations, self-psychology and interpersonal-relations) tend to stray disastrously from Freud's original and revolutionary insights. This is a vision that understands the central issues that imprison our psychic lives - the way in which the reflections of consciousness are based on the repression of our innermost desires, the way in which our erotic vitality is so often repudiated, and the way in which our socialization oppressively stifles our human spirit. Radical Psychoanalysis restores to the discipline of psychoanalysis the revolutionary impetus that has so often been lost. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, mental health practitioners and students and academics with an interest in the history of psychoanalysis.

Author : Robert R. Carkhuff
Publisher : Holt McDougal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Counseling and Therapy written by Robert R. Carkhuff and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1977 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. dimensions of human nourishment 2. the levels of human nourishment 3. model for helping 4. apparency in search of a person: The unique contributions of the client centered approach 5. man for each other: unique contributions of the existential approach 6. the illusive suicide: The unique contributions of the psychoanalytic approach 7. chance, not choice or change: the unique contributions of the trait and factor counseling approach 8. to act or not to act: The unique contributions of behavior modification approaches 9. beyond the known: The phases of helping 10. crisis therapy: The crossroads for client and therapist 11. in search of an honest experience; Confrontation in cousneling and life 12. differential treatment: other sources of gain in help 13. cousneling as a way of life 14. Training as a way of life 15. a statement of training values 16. beyond counseling and therapy.

Author : Peter R. Breggin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312123314
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Conflict written by Peter R. Breggin and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-01-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explanation of the common principles of conflict resolution on every level discusses self-help, psychotherapy, and family therapy and discloses the impact and origins of guilt and anxiety.

Author : Richard G. Erskine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000647927
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Empathy written by Richard G. Erskine and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leaders in the field of relational integrative psychotherapy, this book offers trainees and experienced therapists a methodology for assisting people in rediscovering their ability to maintain genuine relationships and, thus, better psychological health. This classic edition includes a new preface by Richard G. Erskine that reflects on changes in the field since the book’s first publication. Drawing from Rogers' client-centered therapy, Berne's transactional analysis, Perls' Gestalt therapy, Kohut's self-psychology, and the work of British object-relations theorists, this book accessibly introduces the authors’ Keyhole theory while using real life interchanges between therapists and clients to illustrate key concepts. The second part of the book details the application of this method in therapy work and provides transcripts from seven therapy sessions. These include examples of relational psychotherapy, psychotherapeutic regression, working with a parental introject, couple psychotherapy, as well as detailed explanations of the therapeutic methods. An undoubtable classic, the book’s conversational style makes the theory and methods of a relationally based integrative psychotherapy come alive. This versatile approach to therapy promises to be effective across a wide range of therapeutic situations, making this a valuable book for both students and practicing clinicians throughout the spectrum of mental healthcare providers.

Author : Martin F. Luthke
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456602144
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Psychotherapy written by Martin F. Luthke and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond Psychotherapy: Introduction to Pychoenergetic Healing" shows you how to work effectively with healing energies to heal... > Body, mind, and spirit > Past or present life trauma > Anxiety, anger, addictions, depression > Pain and other physical complaints > Relationship issues > Past and present experiences > Spiritual crises You will learn about the theoretical foundations of energy healing, specific techniques and applications, and the risks and benefits of becoming a healer. Clearly and concisely written, Beyond Psychotherapy offers profound and practical information for anyone interested in energy-based healing methods. This book also is the textbook for students of Psychoenergetic Healing. CONTENTS Introduction About the Authors Psychoenergetic Healing: A Brief Introduction PART I: Metaphysical Foundations of Psychoenergetic Healing Chapter 1: Fundamental Premises Chapter 2: The Multidimensional Nature of Human Beings Chapter 3: The Grand Scheme, Reincarnation, and Karma Chapter 4: Co-creation and Manifestation Chapter 5: Toward a New Paradigm of Healing PART II: The Practice of Psychoenergetic Healing Chapter 6: The Nature of Inner Space Chapter 7: The Structure of Psychoenergetic Healing Sessions Chapter 8: A Sample Session Chapter 9: Accessing Inner Space Chapter 10: Navigating Inner Space Chapter 11: Typical Perceptions in Inner Space Chapter 12: Simple and Crystallized Energy Blocks Chapter 13: How to Deal with Energy Blocks Chapter 14: Specific Techniques to Facilitate Healing Chapter 15: Closure and Integration Chapter 16: Homework and Aftercare Chapter 17: Specific Applications of Psychoenergetic Healing Chapter 18: Absentee Healing of Others and of Extended Situations Chapter 19: Healing of Relationships Chapter 20: The Issue of Psychic Hygiene Chapter 21: Miscellaneous Topics Chapter 22: Complementary Healing Techniques PART III: Becoming a Psychoenergetic Healer Chapter 23: Training in Psychoenergetic Healing Chapter 24: Risks and Benefits of Becoming an Energetic Healer Chapter 25: The Process of Transformation and Change APPENDIX Appendix A: Energy Psychology A Synopsis Appendix B: Reading Suggestions Appendix C: Other Books by the Authors