Crucial Choices, Crucial Changes - The Resurrection of Psychotherapy (The Search for the Future, V.3)
Books / Hardcover
Books › Psychology › Psychotherapy › General
ISBN: 1573928127 / Publisher: Prometheus Books, February 2001
De Schill, director of research since 1948 of the American Mental Health Foundation, draws on 45 years of research to examine the shortcomings of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and concludes that there has been a marked decline in the field in the last decades, caused by the increasing use of superficial treatment methods. He sheds light on research that separates valid approaches from pseudoscientific pretense, and proposes solutions that will lead to the transformation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Read More
Based on over 45 years of research at the American Mental Health Foundation (AMHF), this intensive and expert examination of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis points out the important shortcomings in the profession and concludes that there has been a marked decline in the last decades caused by the ever-increasing use of superficial, facile treatment methods. Nonetheless, AMHF research has resulted in invaluable findings, which separate valid approaches from unsustained theorising and pseudoscientific pretence. The solutions proposed will lead to the transformation of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis into truly viable crafts.
Read Less