Movement of the Psychiatric Schools from Sects Towards Science

Approaches to the Mind: Movement of the Psychiatric Schools from Sects Toward Science

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Havens, Leston

Psychology & Counseling

Little,Brown

A lively atlas of the world a millennium ago uses colorful maps and illustrations to reveal a surprisingly dynamic and cosmopolitan planet, with an international Islamic empire stretching across three continents and explorers from Scandinavia planting flags in the Americas.

A Safe Place: Laying the Groundwork of Psychotherapy

History

Harvard University Press

Drawing on his rich experience, Havens offers an extraordinary journey through the vast and changing landscape of psychotherapy and psychiatry. Closely examining the dynamics of the doctor–patient exchange, he locates and describes the elusive therapeutic environment within which psychological healing most effectively takes place.

Mental Health

Approaches to the Mind: Movement of the Psychiatric Schools from Sects to Science

Approaches to the Mind: Movement of the Psychiatric Schools from Sects to Science

To penetrate the opaque, to lift the weight and let the self escape its frozen image - this is the essence of psychotherapy, a process described with extraordinary grace and warmth in this book. In remarkably candid portraits of patients at odds with themselves, Leston Havens takes us through the wonders and rigors of psychological healing and shows us what it really means, in immediate, human terms, to come to life. We are all captives of the images we carry with us - and those we inspire - and therapy seeks to expose the relation of these images to a deeper psychological life, to free the captive from labels and crippling assumptions. Havens views this process through the multiple lenses of literature, art, and psychiatry. In rich clinical portraits, short on jargon and rigid techniques and long on empathy and wisdom, we encounter ordinary people struggling with the trials of their own existence: marriage and divorce, sexual identity and fulfillment, illness and death. We meet a woman imprisoned by eager responses to her beauty and helpfulness, a proud lawyer in thrall to conventional expectations, a dying man becoming more and more alive as he approaches death. Through these very personal stories, Havens explores the meaning of psychological health - how it can be recognized through the filter of images and ideas, protected from their distorting power, and encouraged to flourish. The result is a revealing and deeply moving explication of the process of self-discovery as it emerges from the life story that therapy can tell.

Coming to Life: Reflections on the Art of Psychotherapy

Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology to studies of clinical method and the psychiatric schools, Leston Havens has been working toward a general theory of therapy. It often seems that twentieth-century psychiatry, sect-ridden, is a Tower of Babel, as Havens once characterized it. This book is the distillation of long years of thought and practice, a bold yet modest attempt to delineate an “integrated psychotherapy.”
The boldness of this effort lies in its author’s willingness to recognize the best that each school has to offer, to describe it cogently, and to integrate it into a full response to today’s new kind of patient. Descriptive or medical psychiatry, psychoanalysis, interpersonal or behavioristic psychiatry, empathic or existential therapy-viewed in metaphors, respectively, of perceiving, thinking, managing, feeling-all have useful contributions to make to contemporary methods of treatment. But how? Havens’s modest answer is through appropriate language, and he demonstrates exactly what he means: when to ask questions, when to direct or draw back, when to sympathize.
Practitioners now must deal with less dramatic, but more stubborn, problems of character and situation; lack of purpose, isolation, submissiveness, invasiveness, deep yet vague dissatisfaction. Some kind of human presence must be discovered in the patient, and Havens gives concrete, absorbing examples of ways of “speaking to absence,” of making contact. The emphasis is on verbal technique, but the underlying broad, humane intent is everywhere evident. It is no less than to transform passivity, by means of disciplined therapeutic concern, into a state of being Human.

Making Contact: Uses of Language in Psychotherapy

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

In the early 1970s, the preeminence of psychoanalysis in the treatment of mental illness gave way to a number of other approaches. Yet, rather than practicing in cooperation, the different schools--existentialism, psychoanalysis, interpersonalism, behaviorism--each taught its own methods, convinced it was the true psychiatry. As a result, all too frequently, varieties of psychiatry have come and gone, wallowing in a battle of sects rather than progressing toward knowledge. In Psychiatric Movements, Leston Havens posits that psychiatry must adopt a pluralistic stance, for only an inclusive psychiatry can bridge the traditional scientific quest of medicine with a humanistic interest in whole lives, inner states, and relationships with others. If for no other reason, from an ethical standpoint, the patient should get the treatment he needs, not the one treatment the doctor dispenses. This edition includes a new introduction explaining changes in the field during the last thirty years.

Psychiatric Movements: From Sects to Science

Routledge

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Approaches to the Mind: Movement of the Psychiatric Schools from Sects Toward Science

A Safe Place: Laying the Groundwork of Psychotherapy

A Safe Place: Laying the Groundwork of Psychotherapy

Approaches to the Mind: Movement of the Psychiatric Schools from Sects to Science

Approaches to the Mind: Movement of the Psychiatric Schools from Sects to Science

Coming to Life: Reflections on the Art of Psychotherapy

Making Contact: Uses of Language in Psychotherapy

Psychiatric Movements: From Sects to Science