Therapeutic Discourse

by Tullio Maranhao

Book Overview

Psychoanalysis, Gestault therapy, object relations, ego therapy, family therapy--all treat human disorders by therapeutic discourse.

In this thought-provoking book, Tullio Maranhao examines the rhetoric of therapeutic discourse, focusing on psychoanalysis and family therapy and using samples of Socratic dialogue, as he addresses the critical question, "What is is that cures?" Are these sciences of the psyche or rhetorics of communication?

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299109208
• ISBN13: 9780299109202
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"