Gaslighting, the double whammy, interrogation, and other methods of covert control in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
While trying to embody a compassionate concern for patients, therapists use accepted techniques that can inadvertently lead to control, indoctrination, and therapeutic failure. Contrary to the stated tradition and values of psychotherapy, they subtly coerce patients rather than respect and genuinely help them.
xxiii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
9781568218281, 1568218281
34548677
Pt. I. Covert Methods of Interpersonal Control and Other Indoctrination Methods. 1. Covert Methods of Interpersonal Control. 2. On Gaslighting: How to Dominate Others without Their Knowledge or Consent. 3. On Questioning Used as a Covert Method of Interpersonal Control
Pt. II. Studies of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Treatment Cases Subjected to Indoctrination Methods. 4. The "Mad Scientist"
A Microanalysis of One Analytic Hour. 5. The Effects of Indoctrination Methods
Six Case Studies. 6. The Wolf Man's Analysis
An Interactional Perspective. 7. What Did Dora Want? The Abuse of Power in Freud's Analysis of Dora. 8. The Two Analyses of Mr Z
Revisited. 9. Some Comparisons between What Occurs in Cults and in Psychoanalytic Treatment Carried Out with Indoctrination Methods. 10. Psychoanalytic and Management Approaches: A Comparative Analysis
Pt. III. Remedies and Correctives. 11. Steps toward a Non-Directive Approach in Psychoanalytic Treatment