This Way Out - A Narrative of Therapy with Psychotic and Sexual Offenders (Paperback)

This Way Out, a report of work done six decades ago in Howard Hall, the maximum security section of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., is immediately pertinent to today's forensic and mental health crises. The two volumes of this work help fill a need for specific data on what transpires in psychotherapy, especially that of sexual and psychotic offenders. In an era prior to medication, the therapist employs a version of Freudian analysis and adapts it to groups, both large and small. A sophisticated program resulted, in which a spiritual component, messianism, is pivotal. The author relates this dramatic story through his narrative accounts of 629 sessions. Early in the work, he presents the microanalysis of a session, to make explicit what he and the members said and did to alter their severe personal and social alienation. An informal running commentary, journalist headlines, and annotated bibliography assist the reader in the exploration and comprehension of this extensive work.

General

Imprint:	University Press of America
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	This Way Out
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	May 2010
Authors:	Joseph Isaac Abrahams
Dimensions:	232 x 156 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	420
ISBN-13:	978-0-7618-4634-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Promotions
LSN:	0-7618-4634-4
Barcode:	9780761846345

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