Crucial choices-crucial changes : the resurrection of psychotherapy / Stefan de Schill.

"Based on more than 45 years of research at the American Mental Health Foundation (AMHF), this intensive and expert examination of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis points out the important shortcomings in the profession and concludes that there has been a marked decline in the last decades caus...

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Main Author: De Schill, Stefan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2000.
Series:Search for the future ; v. 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • Hope--If ... / Monroe W. Spero
  • Preface: To Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
  • Needless Suffering, Available Answers, Overdue Improvements
  • Introductory Reflections: What Is Going on Here?
  • A Time of Discontent--Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America / John E. Gedo
  • A Mark of Decline: The Abuse of Language in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy / Robert J. Stoller
  • The Resurrection of Psychotherapy: Working Toward Clinical Expertise
  • From the Clinical Viewpoint: Shortcomings in Psychotherapy
  • Fallow Fields--Spreading Deserts
  • The Voice of the Experts
  • The Bookish Theoric
  • Dr. Faust and Little Moritz
  • Curiouser and Curiouser
  • The New Majority: Academic Populism
  • Heaping Stones and Rolling Eyeballs
  • Dreams and the Feeling for Feelings: Talent Versus the Imitation of Science
  • ... And Other Negatives
  • Through a Glass, Darkly
  • Earnestly Talking Nonsense
  • Honored Teachers--Misled Students
  • The Usurpers
  • The Convenience of Convenient Assumptions
  • Generalizing, Theorizing, Metapsychology, Metadentistry
  • Following a Different Drummer: Quality in Psychotherapy
  • Slashing Through the Gordian Knot
  • The Touchstone by Which We Try: The Two Talents
  • What Has Value?
  • In a war almost lost, a battle almost won
  • The Quest for Affordable and Effective Psychotherapy
  • Intensive, Extended Analytic Group Therapy: A Promise for Many
  • A Parable
  • Some Fundamental Considerations
  • Format and Techniques
  • Quality of Treatment.