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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
By Israel W. Charny - Foreword by Douglas Sprenkle
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword, by Douglas Sprenkle Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Some Old-Fashioned Plus Some Newly Fashionable Psychiatric Syndromes and Relationship Disorders Chapter 1: Some Old and New Psychiatric Disorders Chapter 2: Intimacy and Relationship Disorders Democratic Mind Versus Fascist Mind in Intimacy and Relationship Disorders in Marriage, Parenting and Family Life What's It All About: Being Real along with a Discipline of Decency Family Enmeshment and Disengagement: Reasonable Ideas for Family Life Taken Too Far The Inevitable Imperfection of 'Perfect Marriages,' Victimization in Families in Everyday Life: Violence and Sexual Abuse, Abandoning, Exploiting, Scapegoating and Sacrificing Members of One's Family 'I'm Alright Jack Personalities': People Who Seemingly Don't Have Any Problems and Assign All the Burden to Someone Else in the Family A Need to Give to Others but Not to Receive for Oneself: Big Givers who Take Away the Others' Strength Unquestioning Loyalty to One's Family as a Basis for being Abused Sexual Dysfunctions: How Certainties Can Get in the Way of Making Love Well Genuine Communication for Genuine Relationships: The Give-and-Take of Real Clarification of Needs, Criticism, Anger and Love Chapter 3: Disorders of Neurosis, Depression and Suicide Revisited Chapter 4: Personality and Character Disorders of Self-Entitlement Chapter 5: Old-Fashioned Plus Newly Fashionable Disorders Old-Fashioned Psychotic Abdications of Reality Affective Psychoses-Mania and Depression Paranoid Psychoses-Paranoid Schizophrenia and Paranoia, including Paranoid Thinking in a Political Context Paranoid Thinking in a Political Context A Newer 'Hit' Disorder of Our Time: Anorexia Some Miscellaneous Unrecognized Bedeviling Syndromes The 'Orphan Syndrome' or Self-Made Person A New Syndrome of Grown Kids Who Live at Home Forever and Often Rule their Parents Absolutely Strange, Crazy Criminal Behaviors including 'for the Thrill of it All,' Cases of 'Perfect' and 'Normal' Kids Who Murder Someone-Sometimes Their Parents-Unexpectedly The Unsavory Suicide-Killers of Our Era, Including Some Cases of Nice and Quiet 'Good Guys'-or Women-Who Become Suicide-Killer Terrorists Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome (SUNDS) The New 'American Way' of Mass Killing at Columbines, Shopping Centers and Other Public Places People of the Lie-Invisible Destroyers of Others' Lives Part II: Developing New Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind: Including Overcoming and Treating Some Conditions of Violence and Evil Chapter 6: Ultimate Choices: To Be For Life or Not To Be Chapter 7: Treating Violence and Evil Chapter 8: Author's Voice: What is Going to Happen to All of Us? What Can I Do with My Time? Appendix Bibliography About the Author
Foreword, by Douglas Sprenkle Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Some Old-Fashioned Plus Some Newly Fashionable Psychiatric Syndromes and Relationship Disorders Chapter 1: Some Old and New Psychiatric Disorders Chapter 2: Intimacy and Relationship Disorders Democratic Mind Versus Fascist Mind in Intimacy and Relationship Disorders in Marriage, Parenting and Family Life What's It All About: Being Real along with a Discipline of Decency Family Enmeshment and Disengagement: Reasonable Ideas for Family Life Taken Too Far The Inevitable Imperfection of 'Perfect Marriages,' Victimization in Families in Everyday Life: Violence and Sexual Abuse, Abandoning, Exploiting, Scapegoating and Sacrificing Members of One's Family 'I'm Alright Jack Personalities': People Who Seemingly Don't Have Any Problems and Assign All the Burden to Someone Else in the Family A Need to Give to Others but Not to Receive for Oneself: Big Givers who Take Away the Others' Strength Unquestioning Loyalty to One's Family as a Basis for being Abused Sexual Dysfunctions: How Certainties Can Get in the Way of Making Love Well Genuine Communication for Genuine Relationships: The Give-and-Take of Real Clarification of Needs, Criticism, Anger and Love Chapter 3: Disorders of Neurosis, Depression and Suicide Revisited Chapter 4: Personality and Character Disorders of Self-Entitlement Chapter 5: Old-Fashioned Plus Newly Fashionable Disorders Old-Fashioned Psychotic Abdications of Reality Affective Psychoses-Mania and Depression Paranoid Psychoses-Paranoid Schizophrenia and Paranoia, including Paranoid Thinking in a Political Context Paranoid Thinking in a Political Context A Newer 'Hit' Disorder of Our Time: Anorexia Some Miscellaneous Unrecognized Bedeviling Syndromes The 'Orphan Syndrome' or Self-Made Person A New Syndrome of Grown Kids Who Live at Home Forever and Often Rule their Parents Absolutely Strange, Crazy Criminal Behaviors including 'for the Thrill of it All,' Cases of 'Perfect' and 'Normal' Kids Who Murder Someone-Sometimes Their Parents-Unexpectedly The Unsavory Suicide-Killers of Our Era, Including Some Cases of Nice and Quiet 'Good Guys'-or Women-Who Become Suicide-Killer Terrorists Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome (SUNDS) The New 'American Way' of Mass Killing at Columbines, Shopping Centers and Other Public Places People of the Lie-Invisible Destroyers of Others' Lives Part II: Developing New Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind: Including Overcoming and Treating Some Conditions of Violence and Evil Chapter 6: Ultimate Choices: To Be For Life or Not To Be Chapter 7: Treating Violence and Evil Chapter 8: Author's Voice: What is Going to Happen to All of Us? What Can I Do with My Time? Appendix Bibliography About the Author
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
