Self-Delight in a Harsh World: The Main Stories of Individual, Marital and Family Psychotherapy

By James Paul Gustafson

This book is about the three kinds of plots that run the lives of patients--subservience, bureaucratic delay and overpowering. It is also about the three kinds of psychotherapy that attempt to deal with these plots: objective psychiatry, which deals with the outside surface; subjective psychiatry, which deals with the inside; and narrative psychiatry, which attempts to deal with both.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393701360
• ISBN13: 9780393701364
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"