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What constitutes the patient in psychotherapy : alternative approaches to understanding humans / Richard D. Chessick.

Title
What constitutes the patient in psychotherapy : alternative approaches to understanding humans / Richard D. Chessick.
Author
Chessick, Richard D., 1931-
Publication
Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, c1992.

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xxi, 220 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Questions assumptions about what it is to be a human being by examining the ideas of thinkers such as Foucault, Winnicott, Lacan and Jaspers. Chessick combines succinct summaries of the writings of these European thinkers with critical commentaries.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Phenomenological psychology
  • Philosophical anthropology > History > 20th century
  • Philosophy
  • Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Psychology and philosophy > History > 20th century
  • Psychotherapy > Philosophy
  • Psychotherapy > methods
  • Therapist and patient
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-214) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Heidegger -- Foucault -- Hermeneutics -- Ricoeur -- Lacan -- Sartre -- R.D. Laing -- Historical background: the self -- Kohut -- Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: phenomenology -- Epilogue.
ISBN
0876685491
LCCN
^^^91041341^
OCLC
24846446
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library