THE NEED FOR RAPID AND EFFECTIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY IN A COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER

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  • LESTER A GELB Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/d5574972

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MENTAL HEALTH

Abstract

The so-called psychoanalytic approach to cure patients by recreating the past, encouraging a transference neurosis and then "analyzing'' it is not going to meet the present needs of the many mentally distressed people in our community; neither is a treatment model based on the private practice of medicine likely to be effective. What is needed is an actual affective, collaborative interaction with the distressed patient. There is no such thing as "therapeutic detachment--there is only anti-therapeutic detachment.

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2025-01-06

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Vol. 20 No. 3-4 (1967): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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