Psychotherapy: a Basic Text,

by Robert Langs

A Basic Text (1990) written by the towering figure in psychoanalysis, Robert Langs (1928-2014), is more than just a basic text on psychotherapy. Langs was a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyist, the author, co-author, and editor of more than forty books on psychotherapy and human psychology. Over the course of more than fifty years, Langs developed a revised version of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, currently known as the “adaptive paradigm”. This is a distinctive model of the mind, and particularly of the mind’s unconscious component, significantly different from other forms of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy. This is the text that lays his theories out for you in a simple yet fundamental way.

771 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1977