Otto Rank and the Creation of Modern Psychotherapy

著者名：Kramer, Robert

Oxford University Press（2025/07/04発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197698273
• eISBN：9780197698297

Description

Once considered Sigmund Freud's designated heir, Otto Rank was an interdisciplinary thinker and prodigious author of twenty-two books. After being expelled from Freud's inner circle in 1926--due to Freud's opposition to the pre-Oedipal thesis of The Trauma of Birth (1924)--Rank had a highly productive life as a teacher, psychotherapist, and writer.In this book, noted Rank scholar Robert Kramer argues that Rank, not Freud, created modern psychotherapy, which focuses on the therapist-client relationship. Rank's "will therapy" and his teaching on relationship and the creative will impacted not only modern psychotherapy but also social work and existential psychology. His influence can particularly be seen in the work of Carl Rogers (Psychotherapy), Jessie Taft and Virginia Robinson (Social Work), and Rollo May and Irvin Yallom (Existential Psychology). A dazzling thinker, Rank influenced many artists and writers, including Samuel Beckett, Salvador Dalí, Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Betty Friedan, D. W. Winnicott, and, most significantly, Ernest Becker, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Denial of Death (1973).Kramer argues that if the 20th century was the century of Freud, the 21st century is shaping up to be the century of Rank as no other psychoanalyst's theories have ever been tested with as much empirical rigor, and across so many different cultures, as those of Rank. This book translates Rank's complex thought into language any reader can grasp easily.

Table of Contents

ForewordPrefaceChapter 1: Creating Modern PsychotherapyChapter 2: Self-LeadershipChapter 3: The Denial of DeathChapter 4: ImmortalityChapter 5: Difference vs. LikenessChapter 6: "David and Goliath"Chapter 7: The Will of the FatherChapter 8: The Will of the MotherChapter 9: Transference vs. RelationshipChapter 10: FeelingsChapter 11: How Did Rank Practice as a Therapist?Chapter 12: Carl Rogers Meets Otto RankChapter 13: Willing = Feeling Alive = Guilt FeelingChapter 14: I-Thou ... Thou-IChapter 15: Client-Centered TherapyChapter 16: The Daimonic, Counter-Willing, and an "Other World"Chapter 17: Empathy and AgapeEpilogue: "I Was Born Beyond Psychology"Appendix A: Chronology of Rank's Life and WorkAppendix B: Annotated Bibliography of Selected Writings on RankReferences