The mirror and the hammer : challenging orthodoxies in psychotherapeutic thought /
Challenges to therapeutic orthodoxy
Ernesto Spinelli.
- xii, 187 pages ; 23 cm
Celebrating mediocrity : what has happened to psychotherapy? -- To disclose or to not disclose - that is the question -- I am not a noun : the vagaries of the self -- Do we really need the unconscious? -- Reconfiguring human sexuality -- Conflicting desires : childhood and sexuality -- Psychotherapy and the challenge of evil -- Creation and being : a challenge to psychoanalytic theories of artistic creativity -- Beyond the great beyond -- The mirror and the hammer : some hesitant steps towards a more humane psychotherapy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
"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.