1st Edition

Focal Psychotherapy An example of applied psychoanalysis

Edited By Michael Balint, Enid Balint, Paul H. Ornstein Copyright 1972
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total... Read more
Preface 1 Introduction 2 Some Antecedent Forms of Brief Psychotherapy 3 History of the Focal Therapy Workshop 4 General Structure of Focal Therapy: Use of the Forms 5 History of the Treatment, Follow-up, and Comments 6 Style of Treatment: Interpretations and Independent Discoveries 7 Mr Baker's Treatment Experience as a Process 8 Mr Baker's Personality and Illness 9 Addenda 10 Concluding Remarks

Biography

Michael Balint, Enid Balint, Paul H. Ornstein