Overview
- Authors:
-
-
Yehuda Fried
-
the Sackler School of Medicine and F. Brüll Community Mental Health Center Kupat Holim, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
-
Joseph Agassi
-
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
York University, Toronto, Canada
Access this book
Other ways to access
Table of contents (7 chapters)
-
-
- Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
Pages 1-3
-
- Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
Pages 5-11
-
- Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
Pages 13-50
-
- Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
Pages 51-91
-
- Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
Pages 93-136
-
- Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
Pages 137-171
-
- Yehuda Fried, Joseph Agassi
Pages 173-190
-
Back Matter
Pages 191-192
About this book
PREFACE This volume is a sequel to yet independent of our Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis, Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston, 1976. Whereas our first book centered on diagnosis, this centers on treatment. In our first volume, all discussions of nosology (theory of illness) and of treatment was ancillary to our discussion of diagnosis; similarly all discussion of this volume dealing with nosology - there is very little on diagnosis here - is ancillary to our discussion of psychotherapy. It is still our profoundest conviction that to speak of treatment without diagnosis is meaningless, if not irresponsible, since otherwise one does not know what one is talking about. Hence, our present study, though it centers on theories of treatment, links psychotherapy with psychopathology. It is the rationale of psychotherapy which is of importance, and the rationale dwells in this link. We wish our present study to be self-contained and understood by readers who are not familiar with our first book - or with any specific literature. Our discussion of medicine in general, meaning the rationale of therapy in general, helps the uninitiated reader, as well as the initiated, we hope: it certainly has helped us. We did not see how else can we study a branch of medicine; we felt the need for some idea of how medicine is supposed to work.
Authors and Affiliations
-
the Sackler School of Medicine and F. Brüll Community Mental Health Center Kupat Holim, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Yehuda Fried
-
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Joseph Agassi
-
York University, Toronto, Canada
Joseph Agassi
