Curing Psychological Symptoms (pb)

In this book―written for clinicians as well as the curious general reader―Dr. Henry Kellerman examines psychological symptoms such as obsessions, compulsions, and phobias by using a symptom code to unravel, and then cure, the symptom. The unfortunate fact is that psychotherapists have never really had a map or an instruction manual that they could follow so that any symptom could be unlocked and cured. Even though psychotherapists know a great deal about the processes of psychotherapeutic treatment, nowhere is there any spelled-out technique that they systematically could use to penetrate the symptom and then cure it. This book is more than a technical treatise. It considers 10 fascinating cases to show how Dr. Kellerman’s methods have worked over a half-century of private practice. A majority among those profiled do not require medication, some do. In addition to dis- cussing the cure, Kellerman employs a way to struggle better, with the objective of learning how to utilize the symptom code.