Author : Israel W. Charny
Release : 2018-01-19
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 987/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind by : Israel W. Charny
Download or read book Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind written by Israel W. Charny. This book was released on 2018-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind proposes that the optimal goal of psychotherapy lies in cultivating a free mind with integrity that will not seek to do major harm to one’s life or to the lives of others. This book looks at a wide range of psychiatric disorders, including classic conditions of neurosis, personality disorders and psychoses, through a different lens. Rather than simply enumerating symptoms, namely, how a person is addressing the opportunity of his/her life and the lives of others and whether a person is doing harm to themselves and/or others. This book proceeds to grapple with several critical life experiences and styles: tragedy, violence and evil, all of which often have posed insurmountable problems in therapy.