Talk is not enough
Subtitle: how psychotherapy really works
By: Willard Gaylin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780316303088
Subjects: Psychotherapy; Psychodynamic psychotherapy; Methods; Psychothérapie dynamique
Description: "Dr. Gaylin speaks plainly but profoundly about the art of therapy, what the roles of the patient and therapist should be, and what it takes on the part of each for the patient to get better.

Along the way he addresses such important issues as: whom therapy can help and who won't benefit from it; why the past really matters, and why therapists put such stock in childhood experiences; why the therapist's personality is as important as his or her training and knowledge; why therapy often seems endless; and why, in the end, talking and insight are not enough to change behavior."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Gaining knowledge -- -- ch. 1.; title: Who needs help? -- -- ch. 2.; title: Nondirective interview -- -- ch. 3.; title: Psychoanalytic tools 1: free association, transference, and the couch -- -- pt. 4.; title: Psychoanalytic tools 2: dreams and fantasies -- -- pt. 2.; title: Using knowledge -- -- ch. 5.; title: Psychological understanding of behavior -- -- ch. 6.; title: Catharsis -- -- ch. 7.; title: Insight -- -- ch. 8.; title: Psychodynamics: looking to the past -- -- ch. 9.; title: Defenses: looking at the present -- -- pt. 3.; title: Beyond knowledge -- -- ch. 10.; title: Therapeutic alliance -- -- ch. 11.; title: Corrective emotional experience -- -- ch. 12.; title: Advice, counseling, and values -- -- pt. 4.; title: Out of the office and into life -- -- ch. 13.; title: Supporting the will -- -- ch. 14.; title: Magic and mystery.