The Therapeutic Process
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Essays and Lectures
Karen Horney; Edited by Bernard J. Paris
Renowned for her contributions as a psychoanalytic theorist, Karen Horney was also a gifted clinician and teacher of analysts. She included chapters on therapy in several of her books, wrote essays on clinical issues throughout her career, and was preparing to write a book on analytic technique at the time of her death. The lectures collected here constitute a version of that book. This volume provides the most complete record to date of Karen Horney's ideas about the therapeutic process. It offers valuable insight into a little-known aspect of her work and fresh understanding of issues that continue to be of concern to clinicians.
Well ahead of her time, Karen Horney viewed therapy as a collaborative enterprise in which the open, frank, and supportive therapist grows along with the patient. She discusses countertransference phenomena and the ways in which a therapist's personality can influence the healing process. She offers much wisdom and practical advice based on her own rich experience.
Well ahead of her time, Karen Horney viewed therapy as a collaborative enterprise in which the open, frank, and supportive therapist grows along with the patient. She discusses countertransference phenomena and the ways in which a therapist's personality can influence the healing process. She offers much wisdom and practical advice based on her own rich experience.
The author of seven books, Bernard J. Paris is a leading Horneyan scholar and literary critic. He is emeritus professor of English at the University of Florida and founding director of the International Karen Horney Society. Among his books is Karen Horney: A Psychoanalyst's Search for Self-Understanding, published by Yale University Press.
ISBN: 9780300075274
Publication Date: March 11, 1999
Publication Date: March 11, 1999
296 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4