Significant as has been the role of psychoanalysis and
psychotherapy in contemporary culture and society, its importance
continues to grow at an accelerating rate as more specific,
focused, and involving forms of therapy are devised. The
contributions of eminent practitioners that make up this volume
deal with specific types of occurrences in the confrontation
between patient and therapist, such as silence, crying, sleeping,
touching, use of first names, gifts, note taking, termination, etc.
The views expressed here demonstrate how the rigidity of early
psychoanalytic theory has yielded to fundamental changes in the
handling of the analytic situation; numerous new schools of thought
have arisen in attempts to give deeper fulfillment to the needs of
patient, analyst, and society. The persuasions of these new
schools--Gestaltist, existentialist, neo-Freudian, behavioralist,
ego psychologist, rational-emotive, encounter, and many
others--underlie the material presented here.
Impulsiveness and originality mark all of these departures from
orthodoxy. The therapist, becoming more open and more manifestly
responsive in his interaction with the patient, is clearly shifting
his role from that of an objective listener and interpreter to that
of an overt participant in therapy. These trends are further
intensified by the fact that the practice of psychotherapy is now
carried on, by a vast number of clinical psychologists, personality
psychologists, social psychologists, and social workers who have
taken up psychotherapy as a professional activity in urban mental
health clinics and in a variety of settings outside the major
American metropolitan areas.
The Analytic Situation provides informative, revealing reading
for everyone involved in the psychotherapeutic process. It also
offers provocative insights to students and therapists in
training.
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