Transference & Transcendence: Ernest Becker's Contribution to Psychotherapy [Hardcover]

Daniel Liechty (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1568214340 | ISBN-13: 978-1568214344 | Publication Date: July 28, 1995

Transference and Transcendence presents in systematic form Becker's understanding of human existence as a balance of competing paradoxical psychodynamic forces. According to Becker, connections exist between such therapeutic concepts as low self-esteem, alienation, denial and the theological category of sin.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 209 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (July 28, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568214340
• ISBN-13: 978-1568214344
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,202,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Liechty teaches human behavior in the School of Social Work at Illinois State University, where he holds the rank of Associate Professor. Liechty originally trained in academic religious studies (MA, Associated Mennonite Seminaries; PhD, University of Vienna, Austria) but put that training to work in mental health work, as a group specialist at The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. He eventually earned two more graduate degrees (MSW, Bryn Mawr; DMin in pastoral counseling, Graduate Theological Foundation) and worked a number of years as Psychosocial Coordinator in the Montgomery Hospital Medical Center hospice program. His research and writing focuses generally on the edge between psychology and spirituality, and specifically on the work of social anthropologist Ernest Becker. He is Vice-President of The Ernest Becker Foundation. Liechty welcomes your comments and communications, and can be contacted at [e-mail]