1st Edition

Psychotherapy and the Lonely Patient

By Samuel M Natale, E Mark Stern Copyright 1986
    128 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    Here is an important new book focusing on the contribution of the therapist's love and empathy to the therapeutic process. Technique without dedication, discipline, and understanding will rarely benefit patients nor help resolve their conflicts. Psychoanalytic Technique demonstrates how the therapist's countertransference feelings, anxieties, wishes, and superego admonitions shape his or her therapeutic interventions.

    Contents Loneliness and the Fuller Vision: A Preface
    • Interrelationships Between Religiousness and Loneliness
    • Treating Loneliness in Children
    • Loneliness and the Single, the Widowed, and the Divorced
    • Cognitive Pastoral Psychotherapy With Religious Persons Experiencing Loneliness
    • Will You Be My Friend? Group Psychotherapy With Lonely People
    • Loneliness and the Aging Client: Psychotherapeutic Considerations
    • Replication of the Phenomenology of Loneliness in the Therapeutic Dyad
    • A Model for Working With Lonely Clients: Sadler Revisited

    Biography

    Samuel M Natale, Mark E Stern