Reaching the Affect: Style in the Psychodynamic Therapies

by Emanuel F. Hammer

This book focuses on communication in psychotherapy and how to shape it to reach the patient's affect more effectively. It explores the styles of intervention, as well as the how and why and when psychotherapists might employ more artful interventions to help patients find access to their feelings.

Genres: Psychology

214 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1977

About the author

Emanuel F. Hammer was an American psychologist and author who studied connections between creativity and criminality via projective tests and art therapy. He founded the Institute for Projective Drawings and served as director of Lincoln Institute of Psychotherapy in New York City. He published 15 books and was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Hammer served as an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University, a Diplomate in clinical psychology American Board of Professional Psychology and member at the National Association for Psychoanalysis. His early work explored drawing by subjects, especially house-tree-person tests. He also studied sex offenders and hypnosis.

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