Positive Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice of a New Method

ISBN-13: 9783540157946 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 442 str.

Nossrat Peseschkian; Reinhold Henkel; Robert Walker

Opis

The union of Eastern and European points of view in an effective psycho therapy, such as is described by the author, is very salutary. Especially the parables portray, in attractive symbolism, the wisdom ofthe East, in which psychological insights are represented in what seems to be the simplest way. The author understands how to bring his heritage to bear upon psy chotherapy. Although the categories of his psychological system, for ex ample basic capacities and actual capacities, certainly represent only one of many possible theoretical conceptions, we must conclude from his re port that they can be used effectively in treatment. To be sure, such a sy stem of categories, such a metapsychology, will be of greater assistance to the therapist than to the patient in explanation and clarification. In the fi nal analysis the only essential thing for the patient who seeks out the psy chotherapist for help is whether the physician or psychologist is candid with hirn and accepts hirn unconditionally, no matter what he is like. Peseschkian's "positive psychotherapy" and the author's lucid personal conduct transmit to the reader the impression that a born psychotherapist, with a special motivation to assist professionally those who consult hirn in the resolution of their conflicts, is at work. I wish the author complete suc cess with this book. Prof. Raymond Battegay, M. D."

Spis treści

1 Approaching Positive Psychotherapy.- 1. The Mazeof Psychotherapy.- 2. Health-Illness.- 3. Neurosis and Neurotics.- 4. Are You in Tune with the Situation ?.- 5. Caricaturesof Psychotherapy.- 6. Positive Psychotherapy.- 2 Introduction to Differentiation Analysis.- The Actual Capacities.- Theory of Positive Psychotherapy.- Microtraumas.- Selective Susceptibility to Conflict.- Functions of the Actual Capacities.- 3 Basic Capacities.- What Do All People Have in Common?.- Basic Capacities in the Literature.- 1. What Is the Capacity to Know?.- 2. What Is the Capacity to Love?.- Interaction Analysis.- Positive Psychotherapy and the Etiology of Disease.- 4 Reaction Types — Concepts — Misunderstandings.- 1. Three Reaction Types.- 2. Concepts and Myths.- 3. Misunderstandings.- 5 The First Interview in Positive Psychotherapy.- 6 The Five Stages of Treatment in Positive Psychotherapy.- First Stage: Observation/Distancing.- Second Stage: MakinganInventory.- Third Stage: Situational Encouragement.- Fourth Stage: Verbalization.- Fifth Stage: Broadeningof Goals.- 7 Positive Psychotherapy and Other Psychotherapies.- Critique and Possibilities for Cooperation.- Positive Psychotherapy as Brief Therapy.- Positive Psychotherapy and Other Theories.- Psychoanalysis — Behavior Therapy — Individual Psychology — Analytical Psychology — Logotherapy — Conversation Therapy — Gestalt Therapy — Primal Therapy — Transactional Analysis Positive Psychotherapy and Its Practical Application.- Translation of Conventional Expressions for Illness.- Academic difficulties — Adiposity — Alcoholism and drug abuse — Anorexia nervosa — Attention-getting behavior — Bedwetting — Bronchial asthma — Change of Life — Colitis ulcerativa — Compulsive neurosis — Criminality — Degeneracy — Depression — Disobedience, insolence — Essential hypertension — Exhibitionism — Existential anxiety — Fear of groups — Fear of solitude — Fetishism — Frigidity — Heart infarct — Homosexuality — Hypochondria — Hysterical reaction — Irritability — Jealousy mania — Kleptomania – Laziness — Mania — Masturbation — Narcissism — Paranoia — Phobias — Premature ejaculation — Rheumatism — Schizophrenia — Sibling rivalry — Stomach ulcers — Stress — Vertigo.- The Individual Actual Capacities.- Statistical Investigations in Positive Psychotherapy.- References.- Index of Namesand Subjects.- About the Author.

O autorze

Prof. h.c. Dr. med. Nossrat Peseschkian, Facharzt für Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Psychotherapie, wurde 1933 im Iran geboren und lebte seit 1954 in Deutschland. Er war Begründer der Positiven Psychotherapie; eine intensive Forschungs- und Lehrtätigkeit führte ihn in über 60 Staaten. Nossrat Peseschkian war Autor einer Vielzahl erfolgreicher Bücher, die in über 25 Sprachen übersetzt worden sind. Er starb am 27.4.2010.