Breakdown and breakthrough

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Is breakdown a disaster or an op|)ortunity?
Does therapy inhabit a different dimension from everyday Hfe?
It is widely recognised that in many cases you have to get worse before you get better. In mental illness, too, some degree of breakdown must be experienced prior to making a new beginning. In Breakdown and Breakthrough, Nathan Field reassesses the .role of the therapist, tracing psychotherapy back to its earliest spiritual roots and comparing modern analytic methods with ancient practices of heahng and exorcism. Using vivid examples from his psychotherapeutic practice, the author shows how, with the apparent breakdown of the therapeutic method itself, patients can break through to a new level of functioning.
The book goes on to consider the impact on psychotherapy of fundamental developments in scientific thinking, such as the move from the classical assumption of linear causation to non-linear complexity. Taking up the radical vision originally proposed by Jung and later... Tovább

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Is breakdown a disaster or an op|)ortunity?
Does therapy inhabit a different dimension from everyday Hfe?
It is widely recognised that in many cases you have to get worse before you get better. In mental illness, too, some degree of breakdown must be experienced prior to making a new beginning. In Breakdown and Breakthrough, Nathan Field reassesses the .role of the therapist, tracing psychotherapy back to its earliest spiritual roots and comparing modern analytic methods with ancient practices of heahng and exorcism. Using vivid examples from his psychotherapeutic practice, the author shows how, with the apparent breakdown of the therapeutic method itself, patients can break through to a new level of functioning.
The book goes on to consider the impact on psychotherapy of fundamental developments in scientific thinking, such as the move from the classical assumption of linear causation to non-linear complexity. Taking up the radical vision originally proposed by Jung and later fostered by psychotherapists such as Winnicott and Bion, Nathan Field shows how psychotherapy can be reframed to admit the existence of a psychological fourth dimension. How this new perspective will reshape psychotherapy in the twenty-first century is a challenge that practitioners, teachers and trainees must all address.
Nathan Field is an Analytical Psychotherapist with over thirty years' experience. He works in private practice in London.
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