1st Edition

True and False Experience Human Element in Psychotherapy

By Peter Lomas Copyright 1994
168 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Is psychotherapy first and foremost a technique that can be described, learned, and practices, or is it a relationship in which techniques play a part but ordinary human qualities are the crucial factors? True and False Experience discusses those factors that have made it difficult for therapists and patients to meet as equals in a natural and ordinary way, keeping them from establishing a... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition; 1: Introduction; 2: The Nature of Illness; 3: Perceptual Distortion in Contemporary Society and Psychiatry; 4: The Merits and Limitations of Freudian Psychoanalysis; 5: The Existential – Phenomenological Approach to Psychotherapy; 6: The Hopeful Return to the Past; 7: The Attempt to Resolve Confusion; 8: The Practice of Psychotherapy

Biography

Peter Lomas