Moments of Engagement: Intimate Psychotherapy in a Technological Age

By Peter D. Kramer and Peter D. Kramer

Book Overview

Providing readers with a unique opportunity to look over the shoulder of a practising psychiatrist, this book explains the art of reaching patients with immediacy in a profession in which biological theories compete with each other.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393700755
• ISBN13: 9780393700756
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Issues of concern to psychotherapists

An eloquent and thoughtful dissection of theoretical concerns of contemporary psychotherapists written just before the explosion of antidepressant medications that occurred in the 1990s. The book is written primarily for practitioners. In some of his explications (especially about the role of empathy) he tortures himself and his reader in trying to define his position. But this is more than made up for by the deeper understanding the book provides of issues every practitioner confronts and the entertaining case histories including his own.