Beyond Technique: Psychotherapy for the 21st Century

by Lawrence LeShan

Book Overview

We therapists care very much about our profession and work hard at it. However, the overall outcome is often not what we wish. We get some excellent results, but a number of our patients do not make the progress we hope for them. One reason for these disheartening results is our belief that there is a best method for therapy, the method in which we were trained, which we use for all or nearly all of our patients. We all know that there is no one-size-fits-all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568215509
• ISBN13: 9781568215501
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Work in Empathy

This book should be required reading for anyone who professes to conduct psychotherapy. LeShan challenges the individual therapist to grow and transcend conventional knowledge. In that way, therapists can empathically connect with the people they hope to help. Thought provoking and full of wisdom, LeShan presents his tome with the utmost humility. A very moving book! This book is best summed up by William Osler's edict, "It is more important to know what sort of patient has the disease than what sort of disease the patient has" (p. 9).