Howard A Bacal

Optimal Responsiveness

How Therapists Heal Their Patients

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A new generation of dynamic therapists is taking a fresh look at what actually heals the patient. In contrast to the classical vision, whose essential feature is intervention by interpretation in an ambience of optimal frustration, Bacal's conception of optimal responsiveness legitimizes a whole repertoire of professional behaviors - empathic attunement, confrontation, support, self-disclosure, validation or invalidation. Ferenczi, Alexander, Balint, Winnicott, and more recently Kohut anticipated aspects of the idea, which Bacal and his colleagues - informed by emerging understanding in self psychology and intersubjective relational perspecti… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7657-0114-5
EAN: 9780765701145
Produktnummer: 1355932
Verlag: Jason Aronson
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Seitenangabe: 414 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.8 cm 786 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 786

Über den Autor

Howard A. Bacal, who trained with Balint, Winnicott, and Bion at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis after earning his M.D. from McGill University, has worked with Heinz Kohut and is a leading exponent of the relational/self psychological perspective. He is co-author of Theories of Object Relations: Bridges to Self Psychology.