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Power games: Influence, persuasion, and indoctrination in psychotherapy training

Power games: Influence, persuasion, and indoctrination in psychotherapy training BOOK REVIEWS 95 Power games: Infl uence, persuasion, and indoctrination in psychotherapy training , Richard Raubolt (Ed.), Other Books, New York, 2006, 352pp. What we need … is a new orientation of our training system which must aim less at establishing a new and fi rm super-ego but more at enabling the candidate to free himself and to build up a strong ego which shall be both critical and liberal at the same time ( Balint, 1948, p. 170 ) In his edited book, Power games: Infl uence, persuasion, and indoctrina- tion in psychotherapy training, Richard Raubolt provides the reader with a window to therapists ’ subjectivity through their emotionally charged inter- actions in different training programs. The book is organized into three sections: Personal Refl ections, Theoretical and Technical Considerations, and Supervisory Alternatives. Charles B. Strozier focuses on two stories in his Introduction. First, he describes Robert Jay Lifton ’ s personal experience at the Boston Psychoana- lytic Institute in the late 1950s. Strozier quotes the many questions Lifton raised. One of the questions is relating to the structural problem of institutes that requires many roles that trainees (patient, student, and candidate) as well as analysts (teacher, supervisor) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Power games: Influence, persuasion, and indoctrination in psychotherapy training

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 68 (1) – Feb 8, 2008

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
Subject
Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1057/palgrave.ajp.3350050
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BOOK REVIEWS 95 Power games: Infl uence, persuasion, and indoctrination in psychotherapy training , Richard Raubolt (Ed.), Other Books, New York, 2006, 352pp. What we need … is a new orientation of our training system which must aim less at establishing a new and fi rm super-ego but more at enabling the candidate to free himself and to build up a strong ego which shall be both critical and liberal at the same time ( Balint, 1948, p. 170 ) In his edited book, Power games: Infl uence, persuasion, and indoctrina- tion in psychotherapy training, Richard Raubolt provides the reader with a window to therapists ’ subjectivity through their emotionally charged inter- actions in different training programs. The book is organized into three sections: Personal Refl ections, Theoretical and Technical Considerations, and Supervisory Alternatives. Charles B. Strozier focuses on two stories in his Introduction. First, he describes Robert Jay Lifton ’ s personal experience at the Boston Psychoana- lytic Institute in the late 1950s. Strozier quotes the many questions Lifton raised. One of the questions is relating to the structural problem of institutes that requires many roles that trainees (patient, student, and candidate) as well as analysts (teacher, supervisor)

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Feb 8, 2008

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