Introduction to Psychotherapy - 9781138939875

Taylor & Francis

Introduction to PsychotherapyIts History and Modern Schools\nAuthor(s): J. A. Hadfield\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138939875, 978-1138939875\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1967, the original blurb reads: \n\nThis book is intended to give the intelligent lay reader a comprehensive view of the subject of psychotherapy, the treatment of nervous disorders by mental means. These disorders are of increasing importance on account of their wide-spread nature and of the misery they produce.\n\nIt describes the development of psychotherapy as employed by the most primitive peoples and races, through animal magnetism and hypnotism to the more modern analytical schools of Freud, Jung and Adler. It sets out in particular to give the positive contributions of these various systems, although this does not preclude criticism of their weaknesses and more dubious theories.\n\nDr Hadfield has had the widest experience, having t.