The Language of Psychotherapy.

The Language of Psychotherapy.

Ekstein's book brings together papers on a number of themes which have occupied his thinking during the last 40 years. In the Wiener Kreis, the Vienna circle of philosophers, he studied, together with his professor Moritz Schlick, the philosophy of science, the analysis of language, and the cla...

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Main Author: Ekstein, Rudolf
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1989.
Series:Foundations of semiotics ; v. 11.
Subjects:
Psychotherapy > Language.
Psychotherapy > Language
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Table of Contents:
  • THE LANGUAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; 1. The philosophical refutation; Notes; 2. The language of psychology and of everyday life; Notes; 3. The extension of basic scientific laws to psychoanalysis and to psychology; Principle of causality; The law of conservation of energy; The biogenetic law; Discussion; Summary; Notes; References; 4. Psychological laws and human freedom; Reference; 5. Ideological warfare in the psychological sciences; References; 6. The Tower of Babel in psychology and in psychiatry.
  • Preliminary considerationsPsychological elements in school formation; Ideological elements in science; Dogma and cultural function; Functions of psychoanalysis; The ideological struggle; Determinism; Over-determinism; Indeterminism; Ego versus will; Libido and cultural factors; Interpersonal relationships; Non-directive therapy; A relativistic point of view; Our Dogma, choice and awareness; Suggestions and outlook; Notes; References; 7. Structural aspects of psychotherapy; Summary; References; 8. Philosophy of science and psychoanalysis; References.
  • 9. Thoughts concerning the nature of the interpretive processThe logical climate of the concept of interpretation; The concept of interpretation in Freud's earlier writings; Interpretation as explanation and as therapeutic intervention; Interpretation as a function of analytic technique; The intuitive aspect of interpretation; Interpretive techniques and the advent of ego psychology; The double task of the analyst: therapy and research; Notes; References; 10. Reflections on parallels in the therapeutic and the social process; References.
  • 11. Pleasure and reality, play and work, thought and action
  • variations of and on a themeReferences; 12. The psychoanalyst and his relationship to the philosophy of science; References; 13. Psychoanalysis and social crises; Notes; References; 14. In quest of the professional self; As I remember the young boy; Youth movement and university years; From Weltanschauung to the philosophy of meaning; Path to psychoanalysis; Of obstacles and opportunities; Toward experimentation and discovery; Philosophy and society; Family; Of things to be and things to come; References.
  • 15. Must I have a philosophy of psychotherapy?Identity crises; Accountability as a psychological concept; References; 16. Towards Walden III; References; 17. Metapsychology and the languages of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy; References; Miscellaneous writings; 18. A note on the language of psychotic acting out: Discussion of L. Bryce Boyer's chapter; References; 19. Karl Bühler and psychoanalysis; References; 20. A Home for the Heart by Bruno Bettelheim; 21. Psychotherapy in America and in Europe:the twain shall meet; 22. Further thoughts concerning the nature of the interpretive process.

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