Analyzing psychotherapy / Solomon Katzenelbogen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katzenelbogen, Solomon, 1890- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--Social aspects.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Philosophical Library, 1958.

Summary:

This small book has a big goal: to acquaint the reader with the meaning, scope and basic steps in psychological treatment. Dr. Katzenelbogen's unique and appealing approach is not to survey the innumerable contemporary schools of psychological theory, with their conflicting modes of therapy--but to describe the vital concept of psychotherapy which guides his own successful practice. Thus the reader will find in this book very little academic analysis--there are few references to medical and psychiatric literature--only plain answers to everyday questions in everyone's mind about this fascinating and--to most of us--"mysterious" new branch of medicine: When should a patient consult a psychotherapist? Exactly what happens in the psychotherapeutic session? Is all psychotherapy necessarily Freudian? What determines the success or failure of treatment? When may psychotherapy be safely discontinued? In answering these and countless similar questions, in language we can all understand, Dr. Katzenelbogen's book provides a welcome, down-to-earth antidote to the excesses which mar so much psychiatric writing, in both the professional field and the journalistic "inspirational" one.

Contents:

Illnesses and problems; Psychiatric treatments

The patient's willingness to undertake psychotherapy

The personality qualifications of the psychotherapist

The meaning of psychotherapy

The scope of psychotherapy

The patient-therapist rapport

Definitions of different aspects or methods of psychotherapy

Psychotherapeutic influences

Remarks on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy

Symptomatic or non-specific psychotherapy

Rational psychotherapy

Psychotherapy and habit formation

Timing of recommendations or of any statements by the psychotherapist

Factors entering into successes and failures of psychotherapy

What helps in psychotherapy?

Therapeutic results obtained with different methods of psychotherapy

When may psychotherapy be safely discontinued?

Is psychotherapy a science?.

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