The way psychoanalytic treatment is generally conducted is extremely impractical and doesn't serve the needs of the vast majority of potential patients, who want to achieve maximum relief from emotional distress as quickly as possible. In this essential new book, Owen Renik describes how clinical psychoanalysis can focus on symptom relief and deliver results efficiently.
His straightforward presentation of clinical anecdotes combined with useful recommendations for both analyst and patient amounts to a clear and readable how-to manual. Our customers have not yet reviewed this title.
Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients [Owen Renik] on Amazon. com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A clear and readable how-to manual. In Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients, Owen Renik offers proposals for reestablishing clinical psychoanalysis as a viable.
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A clear and readable how-to manual for results-oriented psychoanalysis. The ghost of Sigmund Freud will probably nod his approval. Psychoanalysis is a scientific study of the mind, and clinical psychoanalysis an application of psychoanalytic science to therapy. Praise Foreword Magazine This couchbuster could be the tipping point for a second Freudian revolution…. Here they come home to roost, if not to crow.
Child and Adolescent Studies. Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy. In their meeting the therapist is a human being who cannot have complete objectivity or total self-awareness, much less be a blank screen.
This book should shake up the Freudian establishment, as it empowers patients and their advocates. Here they come home to roost, if not to crow. It takes an Owen Renik to do this, as it took Richard Nixon to open the door to China where others could only wait, or knock in frustration.
The ghost of Sigmund Freud will probably nod his approval. James Lieberman December 8, This article is not an endorsement, but a review.
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