Impasse and Interpretation: Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline, and Neurotic Patients

by Herbert Rosenfeld

Herbert Rosenfeld makes a powerful case both for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms and the potential benefits of their treatment by psychoanalytic means.
 

Genres: Nonfiction

338 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 2, 2003

Reviews

[Hon Lady Selene · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just no. Rosenfeld ought have gotten himself to a therapist after reading this book he wrote.
He says, in the Introduction: "I believe that impasses are often created by the therapist’s response to the patient’s communications and can be avoided by paying careful attention to what the patient is saying."

Wow. Let us give thanks to Herbert here for having such an original thought that no one else could have mustered apart from him, in the year of our lord 2003.

Nevermind the Jungs, Platos, Rackers, Bleulers and Lacans who have literally died on this hill many years before this guy even knew how to exist.

Herbert Rosenfeld has come to illuminate our neurotic minds, people! Impasses in therapy happen because of miscommunication. Mic drop. After which he wastes the reader's time with his life's story for I-don't-even-care-how-many-pages.

Sigmund Freud, analyse this narcissistic babble.

[Iuri · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite Kleinian.

[Mariana Elizondo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Siempre me tardo años con los libros de psiquiatría, pero posee muchas habilidades técnicas en el trabajo con pacientes graves.