Summary
Jay Haley: How to Make Marriage Terrible
and Other Essays on Psychotherapy
Lucidly and wittily, Haley guides us through seven chapters of the book through serious topics: the first chapter talks about the psychoanalysis of art, psychoanalytical tricks, the skill of gaining superiority, maneuvers used by psychoanalysts in communication. The second is about the powerful tactics of Jesus Christ and does not deal with Jesus' spiritual message or his religious ideas metaphorically expressed in his words and life. The overview Haley offers in the book is a description of how Jesus organized and dealt with people. The third is about the skill of living as a schizophrenic, about the easily used term "schizophrenic", about the difference between schizophrenia and schizophrenic communication. The fourth is devoted to the survival skills of unsuccessful therapists, to nostalgia for benevolent psychoanalysts who are no longer a leading force in the clinical field today; the fifth is about the defense of psychoanalysis and the mystery of therapy - what is the goal of therapy, what is the therapist's duty, and what is the cause of change. The sixth chapter is about the rationalization of directive therapy, and in addition, the title chapter How to make a marriage terrible is about planning an unhappy marriage, choosing the wrong people, quarrels, children, extramarital affairs, marital battles in old age...
What are the survival skills of unsuccessful psychotherapists?
Jesus Christ - powerful communication tactics.
Schizophrenia or Schizophrenic communication?
How controlling experts in controlling others?
Essays on communication and psychotherapy.
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