Akhtar Salman - Silent Virtues Patience Curiosity Privacy Intimacy Humility And Dignity - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Silent Virtues addresses six areas of mental functioning namely patience curiosity privacy intimacy humility and dignity. Each of the areas is elucidated with the help of clinical literary and cultural material. The book introduces a series of novel ideas including: (i) the distinction between patience as a component of the therapeutic attitude and the exercise of patience as a specific technical intervention; (ii) the description of the five psychopathological syndromes involving curiosity: excessive deficient uneven anachronistic instinctualized and false curiosity; (iii) the description of four psychopathological syndromes (failed florid fluctuating and false) involving intimacy; (iv) the discourse on the importance of humility in selecting patients and in deciding upon the longevity of our professional careers; and (v) the description of three forms of dignity (metaphysical existential and characterological) and the various ways in which they affect psychoanalytic technique.
Title: Silent Virtues Patience Curiosity Privacy Intimacy Humility And Dignity
Author(s): Akhtar Salman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138332386
Pages: 180 Pages
Publication Date: 10/2/2018
Category: Psychotherapy