Willard Gaylin (1925–2022)
Autore di How Psychotherapy Really Works
Sull'Autore
Willard Gaylin, M.D., is a leading theoretician, educator, and practitioner in the field of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
Opere di Willard Gaylin
The Perversion of Autonomy: The Proper Uses of Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society (1996) 38 copie
The meaning of despair; psychoanalytic contributions to the understanding of depression (1968) 8 copie
Opere correlate
A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 549 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1925-02-23
- Data di morte
- 2022-12-30
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Valhalla, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Harvard University (B.A.)
Western Reserve University (Md.)
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (Certificate in Psychoanalytic Education) - Attività lavorative
- pyschotherapist
professor - Relazioni
- Callahan, Daniel (colleague)
- Organizzazioni
- The Hastings Center (president ∙ formerly Institute of Society ∙ Ethics and the Life Sciences and was co-founder)
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Medical/ Scientific Board of the National Aphasia Association
American Psychiatric Association. Human Rights Task Force
Institute of Medicine. Human Rights Committee
Helsinki Watch (mostra tutto 10)
American Psychiatric Association. Fellow
New York Psychiatric Society. Fellow
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Union Theological Seminary (adjunct performance) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- George E. Daniels Medal
Van Gieson Award
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Lecturer at Smith College
Case Western Reserve Medical School
Sandor Rado Lecturer at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center
Chubb Fellow at Yale (mostra tutto 8)
Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School
Henry Beecher Award for Life-Achievement in Bioethics - Agente
- Owen Laster
Utenti
Recensioni
Feelings : our vital signs di Willard Gaylin
The author asserts that our feelings, including those of anxiety, guilt and shame, are not troubling obstacles, but the very things that make us fully human and capable of happiness.
An account of conscientious objectors to the Selective Service system who chose jail rather than deferment or exile exposing the "justice" meted out for a crime of conscience, prepared by a psychoanalyst based on interviews with the young men.
This is a book of such great profundity and wisdom that it's title seems inadequate. Willard Gaylin critiques therapy, and the social effects that it has had, along with explaining it. I have tried -- and absolutely rejected, talk therapy -- none of my therapists have ever had the respect for me that Dr. Gaylin has for his patients.
It is in his social critiques that I found Dr. Gaylin most interesting and wise. He calls out the use of psychology as an excuse and justification for bad behavior. I have a great interest in the subject of forgiveness, and it seems to me that putting all of the work and responsibility on the person who has been wronged is both morally and practically a bad idea, as Gavin says: "Although with the fusion of Christian forgiveness and Freudian nonculpability that has occurred in our culture, penance seems to have gotten lost along the way . . . Penance is a crucial step in the journey from contrition to forgiveness . . . It supports concepts of autonomy, dignity, and personal responsibility." Dr. Gaylin also pursues this thought in his book, The Killing of Bonnie Garland, where he feels that her murderer, Richard Herrin, has moved, through forgiveness, from his immediate sense of guilt to irritation that his sentence for manslaughter is too severe.
Dr. Gaylin also examines the actual effects of the sexual revolution: "If sexual frustration was the root of neuroses, a liberated sexuality should have eliminated the pesky things . . . What we have not observed as an outcome of the sexual revolution is any diminution of neurotic behavior." I think that there have been some good results from the sexual revolution, but I agree with the bad ones that Dr. Gaylin cites as well. The idea never took into account that attractions may be unrequited, that endings may be one-sided, that all people are not young and attractive, the fact of jealousy. Most of all, as with other things that Dr. Gaylin cites, human behavior is not simple. We may not act upon what we know to be true, or to be in our best interest.
I recommend this book highly, not so much for the history, as for the wisdom.… (altro)
It is in his social critiques that I found Dr. Gaylin most interesting and wise. He calls out the use of psychology as an excuse and justification for bad behavior. I have a great interest in the subject of forgiveness, and it seems to me that putting all of the work and responsibility on the person who has been wronged is both morally and practically a bad idea, as Gavin says: "Although with the fusion of Christian forgiveness and Freudian nonculpability that has occurred in our culture, penance seems to have gotten lost along the way . . . Penance is a crucial step in the journey from contrition to forgiveness . . . It supports concepts of autonomy, dignity, and personal responsibility." Dr. Gaylin also pursues this thought in his book, The Killing of Bonnie Garland, where he feels that her murderer, Richard Herrin, has moved, through forgiveness, from his immediate sense of guilt to irritation that his sentence for manslaughter is too severe.
Dr. Gaylin also examines the actual effects of the sexual revolution: "If sexual frustration was the root of neuroses, a liberated sexuality should have eliminated the pesky things . . . What we have not observed as an outcome of the sexual revolution is any diminution of neurotic behavior." I think that there have been some good results from the sexual revolution, but I agree with the bad ones that Dr. Gaylin cites as well. The idea never took into account that attractions may be unrequited, that endings may be one-sided, that all people are not young and attractive, the fact of jealousy. Most of all, as with other things that Dr. Gaylin cites, human behavior is not simple. We may not act upon what we know to be true, or to be in our best interest.
I recommend this book highly, not so much for the history, as for the wisdom.… (altro)
Very basic; very good - but limited in its scope!
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- 2
- Utenti
- 608
- Popolarità
- #41,354
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 50
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 1
