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The mirror and the hammer : challenging orthodoxies in psychotherapeutic thought / Ernesto Spinelli.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Continuum, 2001Description: xii, 187 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1412901782
  • 9781412901789
  • 0826452116
  • 9780826452115
Other title:
  • Challenges to therapeutic orthodoxy
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.8914 21
Contents:
1. Celebrating mediocrity : what has happened to psychotherapy? -- 2. To disclose or to not disclose - that is the question -- 3. I am not a noun : the vagaries of the self -- 4. Do we really need the unconscious? -- 5. Reconfiguring human sexuality -- 6. Conflicting desires : childhood and sexuality -- 7. Psychotherapy and the challenge of evil -- 8. Creation and being : a challenge to psychoanalytic theories of artistic creativity -- 9. Beyond the great beyond -- 10. The mirror and the hammer : some hesitant steps towards a more humane psychotherapy.
Review: "In The Mirror and the Hammer, Ernesto Spinelli challenges psychotherapy by asking if it has retreated from its early promise of being a pivotal agent in our attempts to discover what it means to be human', in exchange for its current role as a pacifier of personal and social unease. Throughout this text Spinelli explores the alternatives to psychotherapeutic orthodoxies on such vital issues as sexuality; the erosion of childhood; the self; the unconscious; the uncanny; creativity; and the dilemma of evil."--BOOK JACKET.
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1. Celebrating mediocrity : what has happened to psychotherapy? -- 2. To disclose or to not disclose - that is the question -- 3. I am not a noun : the vagaries of the self -- 4. Do we really need the unconscious? -- 5. Reconfiguring human sexuality -- 6. Conflicting desires : childhood and sexuality -- 7. Psychotherapy and the challenge of evil -- 8. Creation and being : a challenge to psychoanalytic theories of artistic creativity -- 9. Beyond the great beyond -- 10. The mirror and the hammer : some hesitant steps towards a more humane psychotherapy.

"In The Mirror and the Hammer, Ernesto Spinelli challenges psychotherapy by asking if it has retreated from its early promise of being a pivotal agent in our attempts to discover what it means to be human', in exchange for its current role as a pacifier of personal and social unease. Throughout this text Spinelli explores the alternatives to psychotherapeutic orthodoxies on such vital issues as sexuality; the erosion of childhood; the self; the unconscious; the uncanny; creativity; and the dilemma of evil."--BOOK JACKET.

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