Joseph Isaac Abrahams

This Way Out (eBook, PDF)

A Narrative of Therapy with Psychotic and Sexual Offenders, Volume 2

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This Way Out, a report of work done six decades ago in Howard Hall, the maximum security section of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., is immediately pertinent to today's forensic and mental health crises. The two volumes of this work help fill a need for specific data on what transpires in psychotherapy, especially that of sexual and psychotic offenders. In an era prior to medication, the therapist employs a version of Freudian analysis and adapts it to groups, both large and small. A sophisticated program resulted, in which a spiritual component, messianism, is pivotal. The author relates this dramatic story through his narrative accounts of 629 sessions. Early in the work, he presents the microanalysis of a session, to make explicit what he and the members said and did to alter their severe personal and social alienation. An informal running commentary, journalist headlines, and annotated bibliography assist the reader in the exploration and comprehension of this extensive work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761887317
• Artikelnr.: 75138089

Autorenporträt

Joseph Isaac Abrahams, MD, is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego. His 70-year career includes pioneering work in group therapy and psychoanalysis with the severe disorders, occurring in both forensic institutions and in a flourishing private practice. He has written books on grassroots politics, the psycho-spiritual phenomenon of messianism, as well as an autobiographical work conveyed in his dreams and poems.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Chapter III: The Integrated Group
Chapter 2 Chapter IV: Courses of Individual Patients in the Groups
Chapter 3 Chapter V: Summary and Inferences
Chapter 4 Chpater VI:The Works as Therapy and Research
Chapter 5 Chapter VII: The Maximum Security Mental Hospital of the Future
Chapter 6 Appendix A: Glossary
Chapter 7 Appendix B: Occupational Therapy, the Parallel Program
Chapter 8 Appendix C: Photographs of Howard Hall
Chapter 9 Annotated Bibliography
Chapter 10 Index