Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind: Treating Intimacy, Tragedy, Violence, and Evil (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498566971)

Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind proposes that the optimal goal of psychotherapy lies in cultivating a free mind with integrity that will not seek to do major harm to one's life or to the lives of others. This book looks at a wide range of psychiatric disorders, including classic conditions of neurosis, personality disorders and psychoses, through a different lens. Rather than simply enumerating symptoms, namely, how a person is addressing the opportunity of his/her life and the lives of others and whether a person is doing harm to themselves and/or others. This book proceeds to grapple with several critical life experiences and styles: tragedy, violence and evil, all of which often have posed insurmountable problems in therapy.

Author: Israel W. Charny
ISBN-10: 1498566979
ISBN-13: 9781498566971
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2018
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d