The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9780815602293 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 248 str.

Thomas Szasz

Opis

In this book, I propose to describe psychotherapy as a social action, not as healing. So conceived, psychoanalytic treatment is characterized by its aim--to increase the patient's knowledge of himself and others and hence his freedom of choice in the conduct of his life; by its method--the analysis of communications, rules, and games; and lastly, by its social context--a contractual, rather than a 'therapeutic, ' relationship between analyst and analysand.