Making Contact: Uses of Language in Psychotherapy

by Leston Havens

Book Overview

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."

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674543165
• ISBN13: 9780674543164
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 9.1"