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Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket showing moderate wear along edges and light rubbing to jacket surface. Pages clean and tightly bound.
Langs argues that contemporary psychotherapy, rather than being a neutral or purely healing process, is often a conspiracy of silencean unconscious collusion between therapist and patient to avoid confronting painful truths. Both parties, he suggests, participate in defensive avoidance, preserving personal comfort and professional image at the cost of genuine insight.
Drawing from extensive clinical experience and case material, Langs redefines the therapeutic encounter as a moral and existential engagement, where both participants must face the anxiety of authentic communication. The book is as much a psychological investigation as it is an ethical challenge to the profession.
Key themes include:
The hidden anxieties and resistances of therapists
The unconscious rules that distort therapeutic exchange
The moral responsibilities of psychotherapists
Truth, survival, and the boundaries of professional defense
Langs thesis positions psychotherapy as a mirror of the human conditionwhere self-deception, fear, and the hunger for meaning are played out in the microcosm of the clinical dialogue.
Langs was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Director of the Lenox Hill Hospital Psychotherapy Program. Over his prolific career, he authored more than 40 books and developed the influential adaptive paradigm of psychotherapy, emphasizing deep listening to the encoded meanings of patients narratives.
Other major works include:
The Technique of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Vols. I & II)
The Therapeutic Interaction
The Listening Process
The Therapeutic Experience and Its Setting
Resistances and Interventions: The Nature of Therapeutic Work
