Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy

by Paul L. Wachtel

Book Overview

This important and innovative book explores a new direction in psychoanalytic thought that can expand and deepen clinical practice. Relational psychoanalysis diverges in key ways from the assumptions and practices that have traditionally characterized psychoanalysis. At the same time, it preserves, and even extends, the profound understanding of human experience and psychological conflict that has always been the strength of the psychoanalytic approach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593856148
• ISBN13: 9781593856144
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"