The Modes And Morals Of Psychotherapy

First published in 1986. When the first edition of this book was published in 1964, it was seen as being in the area of irregulars in the psychotherapy field as behavior therapies had not yet found a place in the established genre. The new edition catches up on twenty years of academic and scientific study which have done much to resolve conflict and validate the major modes of psychotherapy; spinoffs of familiar therapies have moved the field toward synthesis, integration, and ecumenism, on one hand (Cognitive Behavior Therapies), and toward antinomian religions and recreation on the other.

Perry London, Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Part I Science, Morals, and Psychotherapy; Chapter 1 The Morals of Psychotherapy; Chapter 2 The Blurred Boundaries of Psychotherapy; Chapter 3 The Modes of Psychotherapy; Chapter 4 Ferment and Inflation; Part II The Healing Modes: Insight Therapy; Chapter 5 Speaking and Knowing; Chapter 6 The Uses of Consciousness; Part III The Healing Modes: Action Therapy; Chapter 7 An Epitaph for Insight; Chapter 8 Antidotes for Anxiety; Chapter 9 Shaping New Behavior; Chapter 10 The Uses of Specificity; Part IV Human Complexity and Integrative Therapy; Chapter 11 Orthodoxy, Novelty, and Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Chapter 12 The Price of Personal Integrity; Part V The Saving Guild; Chapter 13 Psychotherapy as Service Guild; Chapter 14 Scientific Priesthood and Secular Salvation;