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Leston was born on July 31, 1924 in New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn with his father, a lawyer lieutenant was thought that he would follow in his father"s footsteps and become a lawyer
(Harry Stack Sullivan remains America's most important and...)
Harry Stack Sullivan remains America's most important and unique contributor to dynamic psychiatry. His published writings never conveyed what his theories were nor how he used them to help his patients. In Participant Observation, Leston L.Havens defines and makes operable Sullivan's interviewing methods for the practicing clinician.
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(Describes the unique features of participant observation ...)
Describes the unique features of participant observation psychotherapy. The book also compares and contrasts the Sullivan methods with classical psychoanalysis, existential psychotherapy and objective-behaviourist treatment. It suggests each method has its own value for specific types of patient.
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(Drawing on his rich experience within psychiatry, Leston ...)
Drawing on his rich experience within psychiatry, Leston Havens takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through the vast and changing landscape of psychotherapy and psychiatry today. Closely examining the dynamics of the doctor–patient exchange, he seeks to locate and describe the elusive therapeutic environment within which psychological healing most effectively takes place.
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(Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology ...)
Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology to studies of clinical method and the psychiatric schools, Leston Havens has been working toward a general theory of therapy. It often seems that twentieth-century psychiatry, sect-ridden, is a Tower of Babel, as Havens once characterized it. This book is the distillation of long years of thought and practice, a bold yet modest attempt to delineate an “integrated psychotherapy.” The boldness of this effort lies in its author’s willingness to recognize the best that each school has to offer, to describe it cogently, and to integrate it into a full response to today’s new kind of patient. Descriptive or medical psychiatry, psychoanalysis, interpersonal or behavioristic psychiatry, empathic or existential therapy-viewed in metaphors, respectively, of perceiving, thinking, managing, feeling-all have useful contributions to make to contemporary methods of treatment. But how? Havens’s modest answer is through appropriate language, and he demonstrates exactly what he means: when to ask questions, when to direct or draw back, when to sympathize. Practitioners now must deal with less dramatic, but more stubborn, problems of character and situation; lack of purpose, isolation, submissiveness, invasiveness, deep yet vague dissatisfaction. Some kind of human presence must be discovered in the patient, and Havens gives concrete, absorbing examples of ways of “speaking to absence,” of making contact. The emphasis is on verbal technique, but the underlying broad, humane intent is everywhere evident. It is no less than to transform passivity, by means of disciplined therapeutic concern, into a state of being Human.
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(To penetrate the opaque, to lift the weight and let the s...)
To penetrate the opaque, to lift the weight and let the self escape its frozen image - this is the essence of psychotherapy, a process described with extraordinary grace and warmth in this book. In remarkably candid portraits of patients at odds with themselves, Leston Havens takes us through the wonders and rigors of psychological healing and shows us what it really means, in immediate, human terms, to come to life. We are all captives of the images we carry with us - and those we inspire - and therapy seeks to expose the relation of these images to a deeper psychological life, to free the captive from labels and crippling assumptions. Havens views this process through the multiple lenses of literature, art, and psychiatry. In rich clinical portraits, short on jargon and rigid techniques and long on empathy and wisdom, we encounter ordinary people struggling with the trials of their own existence: marriage and divorce, sexual identity and fulfillment, illness and death. We meet a woman imprisoned by eager responses to her beauty and helpfulness, a proud lawyer in thrall to conventional expectations, a dying man becoming more and more alive as he approaches death. Through these very personal stories, Havens explores the meaning of psychological health - how it can be recognized through the filter of images and ideas, protected from their distorting power, and encouraged to flourish. The result is a revealing and deeply moving explication of the process of self-discovery as it emerges from the life story that therapy can tell.
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Leston was born on July 31, 1924 in New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn with his father, a lawyer lieutenant was thought that he would follow in his father"s footsteps and become a lawyer
Bachelor, Williams College, 1947. Doctor of Medicine, Cornell University, 1952. Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1987.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Massachusetts School Professional Psychology, 1993.
Intern, New York Hospital, 1952-1953;
assistant resident internal medicine, New York Hospital, 1953-1954;
resident, chief of service, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1954-1958;
staff visit and assistant clinical director, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1958-1962;
principal investigator studies in visual word perception, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1960-1966;
program director psychiatric rehabilitation internship program, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1962-1968;
program director medical student teaching, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1964-1981;
assistant professor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1963-1964;
associate clinical professor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 1965-1971;
psychoanalyst, Harvard Medical School, since 1967;
professor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, since 1971. Cargnegie visiting professor humanities Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968. H. B. Williams traveling professor Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 1975.
Chief psychiatric consultant Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, 1959-1965. Mental health administrator Region VI, Massachusetts Department Mental Health, 1968-1969. Director of residency tng.Cambridge Hospital, 1987-1996, director education, since 1996.
(Meditations by an eminent psychotherapist are designed to...)
(To penetrate the opaque, to lift the weight and let the s...)
(Drawing on his rich experience within psychiatry, Leston ...)
(Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology ...)
(Harry Stack Sullivan remains America's most important and...)
(Describes the unique features of participant observation ...)
Served to Second lieutenant Army of the United States, 1944-1946. Member American Psychiatric Association, Society Biological Psychiatry (A.E. Bennett award 1958), Massachusetts Society for Research in Psychiatry (McCurdy prize 1962), Massachusetts Psychiatric Society (Lifetime Achievement award 2004), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Susan Elizabeth Miller, May 19, 1973. 1 child, Emily E.; children by previous marriage: Christopher W., Jeffery B. (deceased), Jennifer F., Sarah B.