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Care of the psyche : a history of psychological healing / Stanley W. Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 504 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585363242
  • 9780585363240
  • 9780300147339
  • 0300147333
  • 9780300076714
  • 0300076711
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Care of the psyche.DDC classification:
  • 616.89/14/09 21
LOC classification:
  • BF637.C6 J335 1999eb
NLM classification:
  • 1999 H-066
  • WM 11.1
Other classification:
  • 77.72
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Introductory considerations. Introduction. Psychological healing in ancient Greece and Rome -- pt. 2. The bedrock. The healer-sufferer relationship. The listening healer. The talking cures -- pt. 3. Expressiveness and getting things out. Catharsis and abreaction. Confession and confiding -- pt. 4. Bringing comfort. Consolation and comfort -- pt. 5. Healing and the principle of contraries. The use of the passions. The use of the imagination -- pt. 6. Bringing influence to bear. Animal magnetism, mesmerism, and hypnosis. Suggestion. Persuasion. Conditioning and reward or punishment -- pt. 7. Cognitive themes. Explanation and interpretation. Self-understanding and insight. Self-observation and introspection -- pt. 8. Concluding considerations. Overview and afterthoughts.
Review: "In this book, a distinguished historian of medicine surveys the basic elements that have constituted psychological healing over the centuries. Dr. Stanley W. Jackson shows that healing practices, whether they come from the worlds of medicine, religion, or philosophy, share certain elements that transcend space and time." "Drawing on medical writings from classical Greek and Roman times to the present, as well as on philosophical and religious writings, Jackson shows that the basic ingredients of psychological healing - which have survived changes of name, the fall of their theoretical contexts, and the waning of social support in different historical eras - remain essential factors in our modern psychotherapies and in healing contexts in general."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-494) and index.

"In this book, a distinguished historian of medicine surveys the basic elements that have constituted psychological healing over the centuries. Dr. Stanley W. Jackson shows that healing practices, whether they come from the worlds of medicine, religion, or philosophy, share certain elements that transcend space and time." "Drawing on medical writings from classical Greek and Roman times to the present, as well as on philosophical and religious writings, Jackson shows that the basic ingredients of psychological healing - which have survived changes of name, the fall of their theoretical contexts, and the waning of social support in different historical eras - remain essential factors in our modern psychotherapies and in healing contexts in general."--Jacket.

pt. I. Introductory considerations. Introduction. Psychological healing in ancient Greece and Rome -- pt. 2. The bedrock. The healer-sufferer relationship. The listening healer. The talking cures -- pt. 3. Expressiveness and getting things out. Catharsis and abreaction. Confession and confiding -- pt. 4. Bringing comfort. Consolation and comfort -- pt. 5. Healing and the principle of contraries. The use of the passions. The use of the imagination -- pt. 6. Bringing influence to bear. Animal magnetism, mesmerism, and hypnosis. Suggestion. Persuasion. Conditioning and reward or punishment -- pt. 7. Cognitive themes. Explanation and interpretation. Self-understanding and insight. Self-observation and introspection -- pt. 8. Concluding considerations. Overview and afterthoughts.

Print version record.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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