Ebook: Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Burns-Lundgren Eva, Burns Tom
- Tags: Psychoterapia
- Series: Very Short Introductions 416
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Oxford etc
- Edition: Impr. 2
- Language: English
- epub
Psychotherapy and counselling are now widely available to help people overcome emotional and psychological difficulties in their lives. They involve spending time with a professional in an emotionally safe and structured relationship to explore and express the issues that cause distress and difficulty, whether long term self-doubts, relationship problems, or the impact of a trauma or crisis. As a society, we now take this focus on talking through and understanding our identity and relationships for granted, but it is hardly more than a century old. In this Very Short Introduction, Tom Burns and Eva Burns-Lundgren trace the development of psychotherapy from its origins in Freud's psychoanalysis to the range of different approaches—counselling, cognitive behaviour therapy, and other time-limited therapies, mindfulness, group and family therapies, and many more. Describing the processes central to them all and highlighting their differences, they demonstrate what problems...