Psychotherapy: Theory, Practice, Modern and Postmodern Influences

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This work, which questions the medical model of psychiatry as the basis of psychotherapy, seeks to help professionals return their field to an activity that is more helpful to clients, more professional, more scientific, more moral, and more psychosocial in orientation. The difficulties facing practicing psychotherapists, the causes of the problems, and a framework to guide efforts to deal with these concerns are discussed in hopes that the uneasiness of psychologists about the present direction of the field can be reduced and changed.

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Certainly it is fun to read. Reviewing it would be more fun if space did not limit my reacting more fully to all of its riches. This is wealth in Simon's broad-ranging erudition, in his challeging yet common-sense based opinions about our field. and in his clear a (appropriately) personalized writing style.-American Journal of Psychotherapy
This work is an important one that deserves to be read and to be acquired by libraries with adequate psychological holdings. This well-written, provocative, and intrinsically interesting book is appropriate for undergraduate students and is strongly recommended.-Choice
"This work is an important one that deserves to be read and to be acquired by libraries with adequate psychological holdings. This well-written, provocative, and intrinsically interesting book is appropriate for undergraduate students and is strongly recommended."-Choice
"Certainly it is fun to read. Reviewing it would be more fun if space did not limit my reacting more fully to all of its riches. This is wealth in Simon's broad-ranging erudition, in his challeging yet common-sense based opinions about our field. and in his clear a (appropriately) personalized writing style."-American Journal of Psychotherapy

Author Bio

LAURENCE SIMON is Professor of Psychology at Kingsborough Community College of CUNY, Chief Psychologist at Flushing Hospital Mental Health Clinic, and in private practice. He has written several articles and books on pyschotherapy and the development of human personality.