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Review Of Therapeutic Action An Earnest Plea For Irony By Jonathan Lear, Matthew Pianalto
Review Of Therapeutic Action An Earnest Plea For Irony By Jonathan Lear, Matthew Pianalto
Matthew Pianalto
Jonathan Lear begins Therapeutic Action with a question: "How might a conversation fundamentally change the structure of the human psyche?" That is, how could an exchange of words between analyst and analysand effect a cure to neurosis? To answer such questions would be to uncover the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. While arguing that a deeper understanding of irony and its possibilities is central to the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis, Lear's book is much more than its "earnest plea for irony." It is an invitation to psychoanalysts (and all those involved in psychological counseling) to return to this fundamental question of …
Review Of Autopsy Of A Suicidal Mind By Edwin S. Shneidman, Matthew Pianalto
Review Of Autopsy Of A Suicidal Mind By Edwin S. Shneidman, Matthew Pianalto
Matthew Pianalto
In any other discipline, a gathering of minds with only half the intellectual prowess and experience of the consultants brought together in Edwin Shneidman's Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind would give reason for a celebration. The very nature of suicidology must make even such a momentous reunion as occurs in this book a somber event. In Autopsy, Shneidman rejoins forces with seven suicide specialists, longtime colleague Norman L. Farberow, with whom Shneidman founded the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center (the first center of its kind), and Robert E. Litman, chief psychiatrist at the LASPC, Avery Weisman, John T. Maltsberger, David …