How talking cures
Subtitle: revealing Freud's contributions to all psychotherapies
By: Lee Jaffe
Series: Dialog-on-Freud series; Dialog-on-Freud series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9781442239890; 9781442239906
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Freudian Theory
Description: Sigmund Freud repeatedly revised his understanding of how our minds work, how to understand mental illness, and how to relieve emotional, psychological suffering. With each revision, however, he did not methodically integrate previous ideas with newer ones. In How Talking Cures: Revealing Freud's Contributions to All Psychotherapies, a careful review of his concepts at each stage of his thinking reveals six different ways that talking cures--six distinct generic modes of therapeutic action by which all present-day psychotherapies work. Lee Jaffe demonstrates how these therapeutic actions can link treatment recommendations to individual diagnoses, and how they function during treatment itself. Different views of how psychoanalytic treatments work are analyzed according to their emphasis or de-emphasis of these six modes of therapeutic action. As a result, comparisons of all approaches to talking cures, and decisions about the choice of treatment for a given patient can be grounded in an understanding of the essential ways that each therapeutic procedure works, rather than an allegiance to what providers happened to be taught during their training.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-98) and index.
Table of contents: title: Six generic modes of therapeutic action; title: Diagnoses and therapeutic action; title: Individual treatment illustration; title: The treatment of couples; title: Deconstructing psychoanalytical concepts of cure; title: Conclusions and reflections.