TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spinelli,Ernesto
TI  - The mirror and the hammer: challenging orthodoxies in psychotherapeutic thought 
SN  - 1412901782
U1  - 616.8914 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Psychotherapy
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -