Ambiguity of Change

by Edgar A. Levenson

Book Overview

The goal of therapy must be to enlarge the patient, not to shrink him, contends distinguished psychoanalyst Edgar Levenson in this eloquent and important book. Dr. Levenson presents a radical extension of Sullivan's interpersonal psychoanalysis, based not on instinctual drive theory, but on the here-and-now interactions of both patient and therapist. In a series of elegantly argued chapters, enhanced by vivid clinical vignettes, Levenson proposes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465001211
• ISBN13: 9780465001217
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.