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Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind : Treating Intimacy, Tragedy, Violence, and Evil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charny, Israel W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychotherapy.
- Mental illness--Treatment.
- Mental illness.
- Violence--Prevention.
- Violence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 377 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- Rather than pursuing DSM symptom conditions, this book looks at psychiatric disorders through a lens of whether one is doing harm to oneself or others. It then grapples with critical life experiences of tragedy, violence, and evil, all of which often have posed insurmountable problems in therapy.
- Contents:
- Some old and new psychiatric disorders
- Intimacy and relationship disorders
- Disorders of neurosis, depression, and suicide revisited
- Personality and character disorders of self-entitlement
- Old-fashioned plus newly fashionable disorders
- Ultimate choices : to be for life or not to be
- Treating violence and evil
- Author's voice : what is going to happen to all of us? what can I do with my time?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4985-6698-7
- OCLC:
- 1018162697
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