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Time-Limited Psychotherapy (Commonwealth Fund Publications)

By James Mann

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1980
ISBN
0674891910, 9780674891913, 0521359082, 9780521359085, 0674891902, 9780674891906
LCC
RC480.5 .M33
Open Library ID
OL5312115M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (8997225 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
218\218
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Waiting lists in psychiatric clinics and increasing numbers of patients in long-term psychotherapy have highlighted the need for shorter methods of treatment. Existing forms of short-term psychotherapy tend to be vague and uncertain, lacking as they do a clearly formulated rationale and methodology. The bold and challenging technique for brief psychotherapy designed around the factor of time itself, which Dr. Mann introduces here, is a method he hopes will revolutionize current practice. The significance of time in human life is examined in terms of the development of time sense as well as its unconscious meaning and the ways these are experienced in both the categorical and existential senses. The author shows how the interplay between the regressive pressures of the child's sense of infinite time and the adult reality of categorical time determine the patient's unconscious expectations of psychotherapy.

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