Ground Rules in Psychotherapy and Counselling / by Robert Langs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langs, Robert, 1928-2014, author.

Series:

SYSTEMIC

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Counseling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Routledge, [2019].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert Langs has long been one of the most individual and controversial psychoanalytic theorists. In this book, he concentrates on one of the most prominent areas of his thought: his insistence upon adherence to strict rules for boundaries (or "frames") in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.Starting from the statement that "Throughout the history of the universe, frames, contexts, rules, and boundaries have been vital aspects of the development and very existence of both physical structures and living organisms," Langs goes on to examine the profile of the issues of boundaries in psychoanalytic thought. He discusses Freud's technique papers on the subject, and goes on to elucidate his own approach, rooted in his thinking on evolutionary and adaptive processes which he has discussed in his previous work. Throughout the book, Langs gives both theoretical discussions and practical groundings of his ideas. As with his previous book, Doing Supervision and Being Supervised (1994), Robert Langs here brings his unique energy and viewpoint to bear on an important but little-examined topic.

Contents:

pt. 1. The universal attributes of therapy frames

pt. 2. The specific ground rules.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: $a Ground Rules in Psychotherapy and Counselling

ISBN:

0-429-91434-2

9780429896986

0-429-90011-2

0-429-47534-9

1-283-12534-X

9786613125347

1-84940-252-3

9780429475344

OCLC:

729167038