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The Talking Cure, Volume 1: What Is Psychotherapy? Psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud; Analytical Psychology and C.G. Jung.

By: Anthony Stevens

$25.00

In The Talking Cure, an immensely readable and entertaining overview in three volumes, Jungian analyst Anthony Stevens describes how the major schools of psychodynamic theory grew out of the psychology of their charismatic founders and have subsequently turned into exclusive and mutually hostile rival “sects.”

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Psychoanalysis and its many psychotherapeutic offshoots has been a major influence in twentieth-century cultural life. Yet dynamic psychotherapy now finds itself in grave crisis as a result of the intellectual shipwreck of its founder, Sigmund Freud. Since Freudian theory has been discredited, shown to be largely without empirical basis, what is to stop the whole psychotherapeutic edifice from collapsing into the quicksands on which it is built?

In The Talking Cure, an immensely readable and entertaining overview in three volumes, Jungian analyst Anthony Stevens describes how the major schools of psychodynamic theory grew out of the psychology of their charismatic founders and have subsequently turned into exclusive and mutually hostile rival “sects.” Stevens argues that the best hope for the future lies in research to determine the positive therapeutic ingredients that all methods have in common. This, combined with the kind of undogmatic, open-minded humanity advocated by C. G. Jung, could lead to the adoption of a new paradigm capable of transcending the differences between them—the paradigm adopted by the new breed of “evolutionary psychotherapists.”

Publisher:Inner City Books
Edition:Revised
Binding:Paperback
Volume(s):1
About the Author:Anthony Stevens, M.D., worked in England as a Jungian analyst and psychiatrist for over 30 years. He is the author of several other books, including On Jung (1990) and, with John Price, Evolutionary Psychiatry: A New Beginning (2000). He now lives on the island of Corfu, Greece.
Product Dimensions:6 x 1 x 8.7 inches
Pages:128
Publication Date:December 1, 2013