Time-Limited Psychotherapy (Commonwealth Fund Publications)
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (650 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674891910 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A Psychotherapy Classic Daniel R. Grangaard James Mann is the father of time-limited therapy. He proposes that most of life's difficulties may be reduced to separation anxiety. Life transitions cause distress (i.e., graduation, relocation, loss of a loved one). People can best learn to cope with separation anxiety by making it the central issue in therapy. This is accomplished by limiting the number of therapy sessions to 12. In other words, the client will experience a new separation (life transition)in a therapeutic setting. On a spec
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. Mann introduces here, is a method he hopes will revolutionize current practice. 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. 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 unconsc
(Social Casework) . It deserves a wide readership among all mental health professionals and should encourage spirited discussion and clinical research. Its chief value in this context is its convincing demonstration that psychoanalytic concepts are not incompatible with brief, time-limited therapy. The detailed examples and the clear, concise, well-organized exposition of theory and method should make this book especially appealing to therapists in psychoanalytic training. (American Journal of Psychiatry)An important and stimulating contribution to the rapidly growing literature on brief psychotherapy
Dr. . Mann is Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and former Dean of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute