The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy
, by SZASZ THOMASNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780815602293 | 0815602294
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/1989
In this book, I propose to describe psychotherapy as a social action, not as healing. So conceived, psychoanalytic treatment is characterized by its aim--to increase the patient's knowledge of himself and others and hence his freedom of choice in the conduct of his life; by its method--the analysis of communications, rules, and games; and lastly, by its social context--a contractual, rather than a 'therapeutic, ' relationship between analyst and analysand.