Breakdown and Breakthrough: Psychotherapy in a New Dimension

ISBN-13: 9780415109581 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 168 str.

Nathan Field;Field Nathan

Opis

This is an examination of the essential role of regression in the patient's recovery from mental illness. In light of this Nathan Field reassesses the role of the therapist tracing psychotherapy back to its earliest spiritual roots and comparing modern analytic methods with ancient practices of healing and exorcism. The author uses vivid examples from his psychotherapeutic practice to show how, with the apparent breakdown of the therapeutic method itself, patients can break through to a new level of functioning. The book goes on to consider how psychotherapy has been affected by fundamental developments in 20th century science, such as the move from old, classical assumptions of linear causation to non-linear complexity; from reductionism to a holistic-systems approach; from mental mechanisms to acknowledging the mysteries of unconscious interaction. Taking up the radical vision originally proposed by Carl Jung and later fostered by eminent psychotherapists such as Winnicott and Bion, the author shows how psychotherapy can be reframed to admit the existence of a psychological fourth dimension.

Recenzje

'This is a quirky and readable book which opens up a number of fascinating areas in psychotherapy. It is written by someone who is not afraid to enter into some difficult and disputed territory. I really enjoyed it.' - Self and Society Vol 25 No 3

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, 1 Interpreting and relating, 2 Breakdown and breakthrough, 3 Healing and exorcism, 4 Mechanisms and mysteries, 5 New science and old philosophies, 6 New science and psychotherapy, 7 The spectrum of consciousness, 8 The fourth dimension, 9 The spectrum of treatment, 10 The area of convergence, 11 Dubious practices, 12 Danger in the fourth dimension, 13 Psychotherapy and subversion, 14 What is psychopathology?, 15 Psychotherapy reframed, References, Index

O autorze

Nathan Field