| Author | : Léon Wurmser |
| File Size | : 51,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Jason Aronson, Incorporated |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 01 March 2000 |
| ISBN | : 9781461631699 |
| Pages | : 369 pages |
The Power of the Inner Judge by Léon Wurmser Book PDF Summary
This book describes in detail how to effectively treat severely ill but not psychotic patients, by careful psychotherapeutic work on the defenses and the superego. Diverging widely from Kernberg's and Kohut's work with the same broad spectrum of patients, Léon Wurmser demonstrates his flexible and individualized method with clinical material taken directly from actual patient–therapist interaction. The core of the therapeutic work focuses on trauma; forms of defense; conflicts within the superego; and the related affects of guilt, shame, depression, and resentment. This is an eloquent accounting of a master therapist's successes and failures, valuable especially for offering effective and decisive interventions in treating traditionally untreatable patients.