ABSTRACT
This book brings together a global community of mental health professionals to offer an impassioned defence of relationship-based depth psychotherapy.
Expressing ideas that are integral to the mission of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), the authors demonstrate a shared vision of a world where this therapy is accessible to all communities. They also articulate the difficulties created by the current mental health diagnostic system and differing conceptualizations of mental distress, the shortsightedness of evidence-based care and research, and the depreciation of depth therapy by many stakeholders. The authors thoughtfully elucidate the crucial importance of therapies of depth, insight, and relationship in the repertoire of mental health treatment and speak to the implications of PsiAN’s mission both now and in the future.
With a distinguished international group of authors and a clear focus on determining a future direction for psychotherapy, this book is essential reading for all psychotherapists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|102 pages
The social, political, and economic context
chapter 3|19 pages
The cost-effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy
chapter 5|22 pages
The exclusion of psychoanalysis in academic and organized U.S. psychology
part Section II|89 pages
Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship
part Section III|89 pages
Implications and future actions