Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind: Treating Intimacy, Tragedy, Violence, and Evil

By Israel W Charny, Israel W. Charny, Israel W. Charny Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide

Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind proposes that the optimal goal of psychotherapy lies in cultivating a free mind with integrity that will not seek to do major harm to one's life or to the lives of others. This book looks at a wide range of psychiatric disorders, including classic conditions of neurosis, personality disorders and psychoses, through a different lens. Rather than simply enumerating symptoms, namely, how a person is addressing the opportunity of his/her life and the lives of others and whether a person is doing harm to themselves and/or others. This book proceeds to grapple with several critical life experiences and styles: tragedy, violence and evil, all of which often have posed insurmountable problems in therapy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498566979
• ISBN13: 9781498566971
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"