(Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology)
by Robert A. Graceffo (Author)
The primary purpose of psychotherapy is to improve a patient’s subjective experience. A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume I shows readers what this might really mean, how it can be achieved, and where prevailing views go wrong in achieving it.
It
lays out an alternative idea of human suffering and human healing, one
that deemphasizes constructs and prioritizes experience itself. Early
chapters argue that helping people to "know new things" is the ultimate
target of psychotherapeutic change, but that our field has not
sufficiently reflected on the complications of this task. A theory is
then offered, which suggests that the unthinkable aspects of human
experience are responsible for the very ways in which we human beings
think. It invites and outlines a serious reformulation of psychotherapy
in which human cognition is not the seat but the beneficiary of human
change.
This book will be valuable for therapists,
psychologists, psychiatrists, and other practitioners as well as
graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of psychiatry,
psychology, psychotherapy, mental health, social work, and philosophy.
It will be of great interest for clinicians who find themselves
disenchanted with the field’s current ethos, which is stilted by
scientistic approaches to soothing the suffering of the other.
