Forms of Feeling: The Heart of Psychotherapy

By Robert F. Hobson

Book Overview

First published in 1985. This book is aimed at readers who wish to learn how to engage in psychotherapy: for beginners, for experienced practitioners, for disciplined research workers, as for the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0422788708
• ISBN13: 9780422788700
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Conversational Jungian

Hobson, a British Jungian training analyst, is well-read in poetry and philosophy, citing Wordsworth, Coleridge, Buber, and Wittgenstein. He pioneered in the use of audio and video tapes in therapy. A stammerer, he has reason to be especially concerned with therapeutic speech. His method is known as the Conversational Model. He cares how something is said. "The psychotherapist must also be something of an artist. Like all of us in our personal relationships, he needs to speak, however hesitantly, two different and yet related languages: the language of science and the language of art. Too much medical education consists of transmitting data, too little in conversing with patients. "The essential features of psychotherapy are those of any friendship...insofar as we are poor friends we are rotten psychotherapists and probably damaging analysts." Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank