How Talking Cures
Revealing Freud's Contributions to All Psychotherapies- Authors:
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- 2014
Summary
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.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2014
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4422-3989-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4422-3990-6
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 101
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
- Chapter Two: Six Generic Modes of Therapeutic Action No access Pages 11 - 28
- Chapter Three: Diagnoses and Therapeutic Action No access Pages 29 - 50
- Chapter Four: Individual Treatment Illustration No access Pages 51 - 64
- Chapter Five: The Treatment of Couples No access Pages 65 - 78
- Chapter Six: Deconstructing Psychoanalytical Concepts of Cure No access Pages 79 - 90
- Chapter Seven: Conclusions and Reflections No access Pages 91 - 94
- References No access Pages 95 - 98
- Index No access Pages 99 - 100
- About the Author No access Pages 101 - 101





