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Breakdown and Breakthrough - Psychotherapy in a New Dimension (Paperback)
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Breakdown and Breakthrough - Psychotherapy in a New Dimension (Paperback)
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Breakdown and Breakthrough examines the essential role of
regression in the patient's recovery from mental illness. In light
of this Nathan Field reassesses the role of the therapist tracing
psychotherapy back to its earliest spiritual roots and comparing
modern analytic methods with ancient practices of healing and
exorcism. The author uses vivid examples from his psychotherapeutic
practice to show how, with the apparent breakdown of the
therapeutic method itself, patients can break through to a new
level of functioning. The book goes on to consider how
psychotherapy has been affected by fundamental developments in
twentieth century science, such as the move from old, classical
assumptions of linear causation to non-linear complexity from
reductionism to a holistic systems approach and from mental
mechanisms to acknowledging the mysteries of unconscious
interaction. Taking up the radical vision originally proposed by
Carl Jung and later fostered by eminent psychotherapists such as
Winnicott and Bion, the author shows how psychotherapy can be
reframed to admit the existence of a psychological fourth
dimension. Nathan Field reappraises ideas of health and pathology,
psychoanalysis and healing, sex and spirituality in light of a
dramatic shift in the way we understand ourselves. How this shift
alters the shape of psychotherapy in the twenty-first century is
the challenge the practitioners, teachers and trainees must all
address.
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