The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein's Therapeutic Method for Psychotherapy

Author(s) : John M. Heaton

The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein's Therapeutic Method for Psychotherapy

Book Details

  • Publisher : Palgrave
  • Published : 2010
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : 240
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Category 2 :
    Individual Psychotherapy
  • Catalogue No : 29699
  • ISBN 13 : 9780230237612
  • ISBN 10 : 0230237614
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One of Freud's central claims is that our words and actions reveal unrecognised confusions lying at the heart of our relationships with others and the world. Taking Freud at his word and sharing his view of the importance of the 'talking cure', this book demonstrates how the language of Freud and his followers is often so confused as to be therapeutically useless. Drawing primarily on the work of Wittgenstein, John Heaton offers a radically different understanding of the 'talking cure' that engages with the problem of language itself, and its capacity to bewitch both patient and therapist. It holds great importance for therapists of all persuasions who try to make sense of what happens when two people meet to unravel a problem that one of them brings, but is framed within words that may ensnare both participants equally.

About the Author(s)

John M. Heaton is in private practice in London, UK as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He is a regular lecturer at Regent's College, London on the Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy programme, and also teaches regularly at Roehampton University, UK. He is a founder member of the Guild of Psychotherapists and was Director of Training in the Philadelphia Association, USA for many years. He was editor of Journal for Existential Analysis for seven years and his publications include: The Eye: Phenomenology and Psychology of Function and Disorder; Wittgenstein for Beginners; Introducing Wittgenstein and Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis.

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