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With a Foreword by Nancy McWilliams The purpose of
Meaning-Fullness: Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of
Mental Health is to show why current mental health practices are
falling short in the ever-growing need for effective responses to
the epidemic of mental unwellness. Jan Resnick begins by taking a
critical look at psychiatry and psychology, especially the misuse
and corruption of research that undergirds these practices. He goes
on to offer an alternative perspective, understanding, and approach
to issues of mental disorders. Resnik focuses upon the existential
vacuum, a term originating in Viktor Frankl's classic text Man's
Search for Meaning, which refers to feelings of emptiness,
purposelessness, and meaninglessness. Feelings that are
increasingly prevalent in our contemporary world. The existential
vacuum points to a domain of experience not well described by the
DSM or treated with a bio-medical approach. A radically different
therapeutic approach emerges through elaborating Winnicott's ideas
in Playing and Reality, his last published work. Resnick shows how
the capacity for meaning-making originates in early childhood
development, and how this understanding can be applied to adult
experience, thereby making psychotherapy a developmental process.
Developmental psychotherapy aims to cultivate a greater capacity
for play, creativity, relationship, and meaningful living. In
addition, therapy must work toward relief of mental suffering,
recovery from trauma, and mitigation, if not resolution, of
psychological disorders. The theory is richly supported with
clinical examples throughout the book, culminating in a long case
study that integrates the ideas with clinical practice, which forms
the final part of the book. Dr Jan Resnick has created a must-read
work for mental health practitioners the world over. His
easy-to-read prose makes it accessible and of value to anyone
concerned with issues of mental health and well-being, personal
development and creating a meaning-full way of living.
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