Through fascinating case histories and revealing encounters with patients, Dr. Kramer provides a compassionate, immensely eloquent view of how psychiatry really works. Written by the author of the national bestseller, Listening to Prozac.
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This review is from: Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age (Mass Market Paperback)
An eloquent and thoughtful dissection of theoretical concerns of contemporary psychotherapists written just before the explosion of antidepressant medications that occurred in the 1990s. The book is written primarily for practitioners. In some of his explications (especially about the role of empathy) he tortures himself and his reader in trying to define his position. But this is more than made up for by the deeper understanding the book provides of issues every practitioner confronts and the entertaining case histories including his own.
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Some time ago, I supervised a social worker who, though otherwise skilled at what she did, showed a discomfort with conflict or aggression so persistent-and she was really unbudgeable-that I began to become annoyed with her. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ambulatory depression, dynamic therapy, doing psychotherapy, ward chief, being empathic, inpatient ward, paranoid patient Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Some time ago, I supervised a social worker who, though otherwise skilled at what she did, showed a discomfort with conflict or aggression so persistent-and she was really unbudgeable-that I began to become annoyed with her. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ambulatory depression, dynamic therapy, doing psychotherapy, ward chief, being empathic, inpatient ward, paranoid patient Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carl Whitaker, Milton Erickson, Wolf Man New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Analytic Attitude by Roy Schafer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner on page 206, and Back Matter
- Studies On Hysteria (Basic Books Classics) by Joseph Breuer in Back Matter
- The New Century Classical Handbook by C. Avery in Back Matter
- Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self, Revised Edition by Peter D. Kramer in Front Matter
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- Should You Leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy--and the Nature of Advice by Peter D. Kramer in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self, Revised Edition by Peter D. Kramer in Front Matter
- To Want to Learn: Insights and Provocations For Engaged Learning by Jackson Kytle in Back Matter
- Marriage As A Search For Healing: Theory, Assessment, and Therapy by Jerry M. Lewis in Back Matter
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