Breakdown and Breakthrough: Psychotherapy in a New Dimension

by Nathan Field

Book Overview

Breakdown and Breakthrough examines the essential role of regression in the patient's recovery from mental illness. In light of this 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 healing and exorcism. The author uses vivid examples from his psychotherapeutic practice to show how, with the apparent breakdown of the therapeutic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415109582
• ISBN13: 9780415109581
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"