The Therapeutic Process - Essays and Lectures

Renowned for her contributions as a psychoanalytic theorist, Karen Homey was also a gifted clinician and teacher of analysts. She included chapters on therapy in several of her books, wrote essays on clinical issues throughout her career, and was preparing to write a book on analytic technique at the time of her death. The lectures collected here constitute a version of that book. This volume provides the most complete record to date of Karen Horneys ideas about the therapeutic process. It offers valuable insight into a little-known aspect of her work and fresh understanding of issues that continue to be of concern to clinicians.Well ahead of her time, Karen Homey viewed therapy as a collaborative enterprise in which the open, frank, and supportive therapist grows along with the patient. She discusses countertransference phenomena and the ways in which a therapists personality can influence the healing process. She offers much wisdom and practical advice based on her own rich experience.

Summary

This volume of essays provides a record of Karen Horney's ideas about the therapeutic process. She discusses countertransference phenomena and the ways in which a therapist's personality can influence the healing process, and offers advice based on her own experience.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Horney, Karen MD Horney
• Assisted by: Bernard J Paris (Editor), Bernard J. Paris (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.1999
• EAN: 9780300075274
• ISBN: 978-0-300-07527-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 243 mm x 163 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 560 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine