The Therapeutic Process; Essays and Lectures

by Karen Horney; Edited by Bernard J. Paris

• ISBN13: 9780300075274
• ISBN10: 0300075278
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-03-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Renowned for her contributions as a psychoanalytic theorist, Karen Homey was also a gifted clinician and teacher of analysts. She included chapters on therapy in several of her books, wrote essays on clinical issues throughout her career, and was preparing to write a book on analytic technique at the time of her death. The lectures collected here constitute a version of that book. This volume provides the most complete record to date of Karen Horney's ideas about the therapeutic process. It offers valuable insight into a little-known aspect of her work and fresh understanding of issues that continue to be of concern to clinicians. Well ahead of her time, Karen Homey viewed therapy as a collaborative enterprise in which the open, frank, and supportive therapist grows along with the patient. She discusses countertransference phenomena and the ways in which a therapists personality can influence the healing process. She offers much wisdom and practical advice based on her own rich experience.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii	(4)
Acknowledgments	xvii
Part I Early and Middle Essays	11	(62)
Introduction	1	(10)
1 The Technique of Psychoanalytic Therapy (1917)	11	(13)
2 The Misuse of Psychoanalysis (1933)	24	(8)
3 Conceptions and Misconceptions of the Analytical Method (1935)	32	(13)
4 Restricted Applications of Psychoanalysis to Social Work (1934)	45	(7)
5 On Difficulties in Dealing with the Transference (1935)	52	(7)
6 The Problem of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction (1936)	59	(14)
Part II Later Writings	73	(90)
Introduction	73	(24)
7 What Does the Analyst Do? (1946)	97	(13)
8 How Do You Progress After Analysis? (1946)	110	(13)
9 Foreword to Gertrud Lederer-Eckardt, "Gymnastics and Personality" (1947)	123	(3)
10 Pride and Self-Hatred: Solution in Therapy (1947)	126	(8)
11 Finding the Real Self: A Letter (1949)	134	(9)
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12 The Goals of Analytic Therapy (1951)	143	(9)
13 Abstracts and Symposia	152	(11)
A. The Future of Psychoanalysis (1946)	152	(2)
B. Pride and Self Hate in Psychoanalytic Therapy (1947)	154	(1)
C. Responsibility in Neurosis (1950)	155	(1)
D. Psychotherapy (1950)	156	(2)
E. The Individual and Therapy (1951)	158	(1)
F. Values and Problems of Group Analysis (1952)	159	(4)
Part III Lectures on Technique	163	(94)
Introduction	163	(12)
Lecture 1. Aims of Psychoanalytic Therapy	175	(3)
Lecture 2. The Initial Interview	178	(8)
Lecture 3. The Quality of the Analyst's Attention	186	(5)
Lecture 4. The Analyst's Personal Equation	191	(7)
Lecture 5. Understanding the Patient as the Basis of All Technique	198	(8)
Lecture 6. Interpretations	206	(9)
Lecture 7. Blockages in Therapy	215	(7)
Lecture 8. Dreams	222	(10)
Lecture 9. Free Association	232	(10)
Lecture 10. Evaluation of Change	242	(6)
Lecture 11. Mobilizing Constructive Forces	248	(9)
References	257	(2)
Writings of Karen Horney	259	(8)
Index	267