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Transforming Lives
Joseph . Ed(S): Schachter
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Description for Transforming Lives
Hardback. People's lives can be transformed by psychoanalysis. Yet the decision to undertake this enterprise can seem so formidable that many deny themselves an extraordinary experience. This book provides seven case reports in which the patients' lives - in their own judgements - were transformed. Editor(s): Schachter, Joseph. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAF; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
People's lives can be dramatically transformed by psychoanalysis. Yet the decision to undertake this enterprise can seem so formidable that many deny themselves an extraordinary experience. This book makes that decision - admittedly a complex one - better informed, clearer, and easier. It provides seven detailed case reports, easy to read and free of technical jargon, in which the patients' lives -in their own judgements - were transformed. This is not meant to imply that psychoanalysis always or even usually yields transformative results. These case studies are intriguing in their own right and help the reader think knowledgeably about psychoanalysis ... Read more
People's lives can be dramatically transformed by psychoanalysis. Yet the decision to undertake this enterprise can seem so formidable that many deny themselves an extraordinary experience. This book makes that decision - admittedly a complex one - better informed, clearer, and easier. It provides seven detailed case reports, easy to read and free of technical jargon, in which the patients' lives -in their own judgements - were transformed. This is not meant to imply that psychoanalysis always or even usually yields transformative results. These case studies are intriguing in their own right and help the reader think knowledgeably about psychoanalysis ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Northvale NJ, United States
ISBN
9780765701183
SKU
V9780765701183
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About Joseph . Ed(S): Schachter
Joseph Schachter was trained as a clinical psychologist in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University, obtained his medical degree from New York University-Bellevue Medical School, and received his psychoanalytic training at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In mid-career he spent a number of years in full-time physiological/developmental research with infants and children. He subsequently ... Read more
Reviews for Transforming Lives
Schachter and his colleagues indeed make a signal contribution to the questions that have beset psychoanalysis throughout its century long history as a treatment for emotional and mental illness: What does analysis do? And how does it do it? What they incorporate into seven detailed chapter-long very lucid accounts of psychoanalyses that have gone well (conducted by seven different analysts), ... Read more