Fitness for Community: A Response to Langs and Kohut
Offers an appreciation and a critique of certain notions of the nature of psychotherapy as held by Robert Langs and Heinz Kohut, particularly as these psychoanalytically-oriented therapists view the preferred relationship between therapist and patient. Explores the following theoretical and clinical...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
[publisher not identified]
1984
|
| In: |
The Journal of pastoral care
Year: 1984, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 324-337 |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Offers an appreciation and a critique of certain notions of the nature of psychotherapy as held by Robert Langs and Heinz Kohut, particularly as these psychoanalytically-oriented therapists view the preferred relationship between therapist and patient. Explores the following theoretical and clinical issues: (1) Appropriate point and visible commitments for client and therapist beyond the therapy contract; (2) technical and philosophical assumptions related to the prohibition against community membership of the therapist; (3) exclusiveness claim of the therapist as that of a mother who has but one child; and (4) the degree of omniscience of the therapist. These issues are addressed from a viewpoint which sees the pastoral psychotherapist as a representative of a wider community than that traditionally found in the psychotherapeutic approaches of psychoanalysis. |
|---|---|
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Journal of pastoral care
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/002234098403800411 |