Forms of Feeling: The Heart of Psychotherapy

By Robert F. Hobson

"?The conversational model is? the result of 30 years experience of working with distressed people and the utterly human problems of being together and yet so far from one another. It's about key words and concepts that are recognisable in any therapy session."--"Social Work Today"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0422788805
• ISBN13: 9780422788809
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Tavistock Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 7.9"

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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