The nature of psychotherapy : a critique of the psychotherapeutic transaction / Walter Bromberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bromberg, Walter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 108 pages)

Other Title:

nature of psychotherapy

Place of Publication:

New York : Grune & Stratton, [1962]

Summary:

"The ultimate nature of psychotherapy, its inner structure and the details of its functioning, is one of psychiatry's most interesting problems. Although much has been written on theories of the action of psychotherapy, agreement has not been universal on the exact nature of this complicated transaction. The analysis of the meaning of psychotherapy presented in this volume differs from the usual clinical one in that it proceeds on the basis of a logical analysis. The writer is aware of his temerity in approaching the emotional relation of psychotherapy in a way that is primarily ratiocinative. This approach was stimulated in the writer by an acquaintance with the polyglot of therapeutic methods which forms the history of psychotherapy and by acquaintance with therapists of many backgrounds, attitudes and types of training and methods of operation. As a Lumper, the present writer will try in this book to distill a "universal" out of the myriad worlds of psychotherapeutic method. For this, he has only himself to blame, and for the thesis presented, he naturally assumes sole responsibility. Several of the chapters were read in the form of papers at psychiatric meetings, notably that of the American Psychiatric Association, Chicago, 1957; the Santa Clara-Monterey Psychiatric Society, San Jose, California, 1957; and the joint meeting of the Northern and Central California Psychiatric Societies, Yosemite, California, 1960"-- Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

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