A complete guide to therapy : from psychoanalysis to behaviour modification / Joel Kovel.
By: Kovel, Joel
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BookPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 1976Description: xviii, 259 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0394733363.Subject(s): Psychoanalysis | Behavior modificationDDC classification: 616.8914 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 616.8914 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00037070 | ||
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Includes index.
Part One: Neurosis and therapy -- The contours of disorder -- On therapy and therapies -- Part Two: The varieties of therapeutic experience -- Section A: Analytic therapies -- Freudian psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- Non-Freudian analysis -- Jung and analytical psychology -- The existential approach -- Section B: The postanalytic therapies - The human potential movement -- Rogerian therapy -- Gestalt therapy -- Biofunctional therapies: Wilhelm Reich and bioenergetics -- Primal therapy -- The mysticotranscendent approach -- The social dimension: group approaches -- Family therapy -- Behavioral-directive therapies -- Part Three: For the customer and citizen -- Guide for the perplexed -- Hysterical misery and common unhappiness.
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Kirkus Book Review
Psychiatrist/professor Kovel (author also of White Racism: A Psychohistory) says one of his intentions in writing this book was to provide a guide through the bewildering proliferation of therapies for those who are seeking help, so that they may choose a type of therapy suited to their special problems, personalities, and pocketbooks. In this he has succeeded with an admirable evenhandedness, surmounting bis own admitted bias towards the Freudian to give a fair assessment of therapies ranging from neo-Freudian analysis (with its stress on interpersonal relations and self-esteem rather than on the repression of infantile sexuality) and Jungian analysis (with its emphasis on transpersonal symbolism) to the less millenarian branches of the human potential movement (Rogerian, Gestalt) and the more responsible group and body therapies. He reserves his contempt for the consumerist jargon of Transactional Analysis, the mechanism of behavior mod, and the potential authoritarian cultism of Janov's Primal and Erhard's EST. But the book is much more than just a well-organized guide; it is grounded in a deeply considered definition of neurosis, therapy, and transference in the political and moral context of human nature and modem life. It includes a fascinating genealogy and a flexible classification of therapeutic schools, as well as a valuable anticipation of questions that may nag the potential patient: whether therapy will diminish creativity, whether the therapist must have professional qualifications, how one may judge whether therapy is working when getting better may temporarily necessitate feeling worse. Kovel's audience will be somewhat special: middle class, intelligent, with the high literacy, patience, and curiosity to follow a complex and qualifying mind. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Joel Stephen Kovel was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 27, 1936. He received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1957 and a medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He trained at Downstate Psychoanalytic Institute in Brooklyn. He was director of resident training in psychiatry at Albert Einstein Medical School in the Bronx from 1977 to 1983. He was also a professor of psychiatry there until 1986. He left to teach courses in Marx and Freud at the New School in Manhattan and later taught at Bard College from 1988 to 2009.Kovel was the founder of ecosocialism. He wrote several books including White Racism: A Psychohistory, A Complete Guide to Therapy, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, and The Lost Traveller's Dream. He died from pneumonia and autoimmune encephalitis on April 30, 2018 at the age of 81.
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