Effective psychotherapy : the contribution of Hellmuth Kaiser

Foreword - Allen J. Enelow and Leta McKinney Adler. The problem of responsibility in psychotherapy. The universal symptom of the psychoneuroses: a search for the conditions of effective psychotherapy. --The concept of the universal symptom. --Theory and practice in interaction. --Reorientation. Emergency: seven dialogues reflecting the essence of psychotherapy in an extreme adventure. Afterword - Louis B. Fierman

'...The great hope that Freud's technique of psychoanalysis would provide an effective therapy has not been realized after sixty years of trial, and at present there is increasing disillusionment over the ineffectiveness of analytic and insight-oriented therapies. Dr. Kaiser's important and revolutionary work brings new hope for a curative therapy that will also deal effectively with a far wider range of mental disturbances than Freudian analysis has generally attempted to treat....'

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