Care of the psyche : a history of psychological healing / Stanley Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Stanley, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counseling--History.

Counseling.

Psychotherapy--History.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 504 p. )

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, a distinguished historian of medicine surveys the basic elements that have constituted psychological healing over the centuries. Dr. Stanley W. Jackson shows that healing practices, whether they come from the worlds of medicine, religion, or philosophy, share certain elements that transcend space and time. Drawing on medical writings from classical Greece and Rome to the present, as well as on philosophical and religious writings, Dr. Jackson shows that the basic ingredients of psychological healing-which have survived changes of name, the fall of their theoretical contexts, and the waning of social support in different historical eras-are essential factors in our modern psychotherapies and in healing contexts in general.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part One. Introductory Considerations

Part Two. The Bedrock

Part Three. Expressiveness and Getting Things Out

Part Four. Bringing Comfort

Part Five. Healing and the Principle of Contraries

Part Six. Bringing Influence to Bear

Part Seven. Cognitive Themes

Part Eight. Concluding Considerations

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-494) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300147339

0300147333

9780585363240

0585363242

OCLC:

1024014889