Integration and Self Healing: Affect, Trauma, Alexithymia

By Henry Krystal

Book Overview

First published in 1993. Aexithymia is the single most common cause of poor outcome or outright failure of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The reason that this problem has escaped... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881630705
• ISBN13: 9780881630701
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: The Analytic Press
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Exceptional Book

Krystal's theoretical insights and clinical implications -- especially for somatic, substance abusing and more primitive patients -- have been invaluable. He is an intergrative and original thinker.

Extraordinarily compassionate understanding of trauma

Krystal conveys an exceptionally deep understanding of the constricting effect of trauma on the human mind, and he shows how healing entails opening one's mind to the full range of experience. He presents the finest model of caring and compassion for the self I've seen.