The mirror and the hammer : challenging orthodoxies in psychotherapeutic thought / Ernesto Spinelli.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Continuum, 2001Description: xii, 187 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1412901782
- 9781412901789
- 0826452116
- 9780826452115
- Challenges to therapeutic orthodoxy
- 616.8914 21
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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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