The Therapeutic Process: Essays and Lectures (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Professor Bernard J. Paris (Editor)

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Renowned for her contributions to psychoanalytic theory, Karen Horney was also a gifted clinician and teacher of analysts. This book--a collection of her writings and lectures on analytic technique--provides the most complete record to date of Horney`s ideas about the therapeutic process. With insights far ahead of her time, Horney addresses issues that continue to concern practicing analysts.

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• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (March 11, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300075278
• ISBN-13: 978-0300075274
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #791,746 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential Lectures on Psychoanalytical Technique, May 18, 2001

By	Peter Jay Stein, MD "portend98" (Rockville Centre, New York USA) - See all my reviews

Grounded in her theoretical framework of the human need to create a 'glorified self' to rise above one's basic anxiety, these eleven posthumously published lectures by Karen Horney are penetratingly powerful and incisive. As with many of Horney's writings, the reader will find himself (or herself), both as therapist and patient, resonating deeply with Horney's diverse descriptions of the patient-psychotherapist relationship. Without using the classical jargon of psychoanalysis, Horney remains consistent and true to her grasp of the life and death battle between neurosis and healthy growth. Bernard Paris does his usual excellent job of chronicling the various essays and lectures, as well as organizing Horney's own theoretical development; but it is Horney's writings, themselves, that ring clear - it's not easy to learn the truth about oneself; it is a lifelong process that requires great tenacity, endless self-searching, and ruthless honesty - and no one can do it but the patient herself.