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Cultivating Intuition: A Personal Introduction to Psychotherapy: Second Edition

Author(s) : Peter Lomas

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Because the author has been deeply influenced by Freud the ideas of psychoanalysis have a prominent position in the text but the book is not about psychoanalysis or any other school of thought. It is an encouragement to readers to see professional work as an extension, in a particular setting, of how we try to help a troubled person in everyday life. Ordinary language is the best and most subtle way of describing what happens in a therapeutic encounter. Special language may be useful at certain points but should never dominate the picture as, unhappily, so often happens. In this second edition, amongst various changes, Dr. Lomas has focussed more on the needs of those who are in the process of learning psychotherapy.

Contents:
Introduction; Learning the practice of psychotherapy; The desirable attributes of the psychotherapist; Freud and the analytic attitude; Interpretation; The past in the present; The moral nature of psychotherapy; Dependence; Confusion; Seduction in therapy; Responsibility; Is psychotherapy real? Ordinariness; Cultivating intuition; References; Suggested reading; Index