Emotional Investment: Transforming Psychotherapeutic Assumptions

by G. Michael Blahnik

Emotional Investment: Transforming Psychotherapeutic Assumptions argues that most current psychotherapies tend to be objective or quasi-objective in their orientation, where "objective" means that mental health and mental illness are assumed to be realities beyond the clinician's and the patient's experience (e.g. psychoanalysis, ego psychology, self psychology, and behaviorism) and "quasi-objective" means that though lip service is given to relative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499218400
• ISBN13: 9781499218404
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"