Dr Langs writes I have preseved the workbook format(of a previously published 3-volume set of workbooks)and have tried to select the most cogent clinical vignettes available in the original books to convey the essence of clinical(communicative)listening, formulating, intervening and validating.
In this title, originally published in 1989, Dr Robert Langs, a psychoanalyst and dream researcher, goes far beyond standard interpretation in showing how your dreams tap the wisdom of the deep unconscious part of your mind.
Reflects a thorough synthesis of the many aspects of psychoanalytic experience and its therapeutic impact. This volume permits the reader to sample areas and topics of particular interest, while presenting a consistent overview of psychotherapy.
This work depicts modern psychotherapy as a hoax. It suggests that unconscious processes between therapist and patient lead to collusion, conspiracy and confusion in the psychotherapeutic situation that not only prevent anything therapeutic from happening, but also have pernicious effects.
The second volume of a two-volume set discussing the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This volume considers the responses to intervention, the patient-therapist relationship and the phases of psychotherapy.
Argues that death anxiety is neglected - in part, because of treatment failures due to countertransference interferences during treatment. Langs then discusses the technical issues connected with this, whilst introducing the controversial concept that mental activities are derived from immune system activities.