Personal disorder and family life
By: Peter Lomas.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Family -- Mental health; Family -- Psychological aspects; Childbirth -- Psychological aspects; Postpartum psychiatric disorders; Psychotherapy -- Philosophy
Description: The family is the focal point of Personal Disorder and Family Life, a series of Lomas' collected papers written between 1959 and 1996. Although he concentrates on the family, Lomas covers a variety of themes. "An Interpretation of Modern Obstetric Practice" explores the effect of the maternity ward on the psychology of the mother. He also critiques contemporary psychotherapeutic theory, practice, and teaching, in particular the excessive preoccupation with technique at the cost of spontaneity.

Psychotherapy, he believes, can only be properly understood in the context of morality. Lomas has produced a book at the crest of new thinking on the family as an organizing premise. As such, it will be of interest to professionals in the fields of psychoanalysis, analytically oriented psychotherapy, and individual or family counseling, as well as general readers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.