A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume 1: The Theoretical Basis for a Compassionate Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781032304816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 264 str.

Robert A. Graceffo

Opis

The primary purpose of psychotherapy is to improve a patient’s subjective experience. A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume I shows readers what this might really mean, how it can be achieved, and where prevailing views go wrong in achieving it.

Spis treści

Part I: The Basis for a Critique, 1. Beyond the World of Constructs, Part II: Wandering About Knowing and Wondering into a Better Method, 2. The Misattribution of Knowing and the Sentiment of Experience: There is No Such Floor, 3. The Striving Mind, 4. Existential Structure and the Experience Paradox, 5. The Current, the Ocean, and Illusions of Finitude, 6. The Tenderness of Soul and the Development of Reality: Out Past the Artifice of Mind, Part III: Psychotherapy: Mechanisms and Meaning, 7. What Psychotherapy Isn’t: The Limitations of Knowledge Transfer, 8. The Experiential Basis of Right Knowing: Love, Loss, and Loathing, 9. A Shrinking Self is a Growing Self, 10. The Contiguity of Being, 11. Compassionately Going With: Psychotherapy is a Dance on the Brink

O autorze

Robert A. Graceffo, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice and a lecturer and supervisor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, USA.