Control Therapy: An Integrated Approach to Psychotherapy, Health, and Healing

by Deane H. Shapiro Jr.

Book Overview

Control Therapy An Integrated Approach to Psychotherapy, Health, and Healing

Nothing is as basic to human dignity and emotional well-being as a sense of control over one's life. Little is as baneful to the integrity of the individual psyche, the quality of interpersonal relationships, or the fabric of a free society as the sense of loss of control--except, perhaps, an irrational and unceasing fear of losing it. From cradle to grave, fundamental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047155278X
• ISBN13: 9780471552789
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Control Therapy is integrative, insightful and compelling.

Control Therapy is excellent! It provided a theoretically coherent theory for integrating wisdom from the east and west into psychotherapy. After developing a clear and thoughtful foundation, the book further offered an in depth guide to using control therapy in clinical work. This book has helped me synthesize my belief that there are times to hold on and fight for change and there are times to let go and accept. This book has helped me both professionally and personally.