Thinking for Clinicians: Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies

by Donna M. Orange

Book Overview

Thinking for Clinicians provides analysts of all orientations with the tools and context for working critically within psychoanalytic theory and practice. It does this through detailed chapters on some of the philosophers whose work is especially relevant for contemporary theory and clinical writing: Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Buber, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Orange presents the historical background for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088163493X
• ISBN13: 9780881634938
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"