Title: Unsung Torchbearer of Existential-Humanistic Psychology: Otto Rank [Review of The Birth of Relationship Therapy: Carl Rogers Meets Otto Rank (original) (raw)
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Review of "The Birth of Relationship Therapy" by Robert Kramer--Updated
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Reviews the book, The Birth of Relationship Therapy: Carl Rogers Meets Otto Rank by Robert Kramer (2019). Anyone who is interested in the nature and development of existential-humanistic psychology in America should read this book—as well as Rank’s germinal treatises of course. As Kramer makes clear, not only does Rank develop an existential-humanistic framework for practice, he anticipates what are now viewed as the key elements of effective therapy—the therapeutic relationship and the responsivity of the therapist to the needs of the client (Norcross & Wampold, 2019). In short, this is a revelatory work that both alters our understanding of history and sets the course for a revisioned future. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) Note: This is an updated version of my review of Robert Kramer's "The Birth of Relationship Therapy" which has just been published online at The Humanistic Psychologist:. “©American Psychological Association, [2021]. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. The final article is available, upon publication, at: Schneider, K. J. (2021). Review of The birth of relationship therapy: Carl Rogers meets Otto Rank [Review of the book The birth of relationship therapy: Carl rogers meets otto rank, by R. Kramer]. The Humanistic Psychologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000262
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This is a remarkable book, destined to become a point of reference in the large field of clinical psychology and psychotherapy. Two of the greatest Kellian psychotherapists and scholars present a new perspective on personal construct psychology (PCP). They introduce a breath of fresh air into a sector of clinical psychology, certainly fascinating, but which has long been circumscribed within the perimeter of the monumental work by Kelly (1955), which was able to grasp and transcend the spirit of the time. As Bruner (1956) states, 'If it was Freud's genius to cut through the rationalistic cant of nineteenth century Apollonianism, George Kelly's talent is to outstare the fashionable Dionysianism of the twentieth.' Although an alternative to behaviourism and psychoanalysis, Kelly's psychology of personality shared their individualism. Procter and Winter's personal and relational construct psychotherapy overturns this premise, abandoning constructivism in solitude to place PCP within social constructivism. The authors retain Kelly's central idea that the key to understanding human personality is meaning, as well as the processes by which individuals construct meaning. However, they reframe this idea through a relational perspective which borrows some of its assumptions from systemic psychotherapies... This comprehensive, conceptually grounded and documented volume is a total pleasure to read. The reader is introduced to personal and relational construct psychotherapy through a compelling clinical case, which is accompanied in the following chapters by a clear and engaging style. You feel the authors’ absolute mastery of the subject and their ability – characteristic of great clinicians – to empathise with their interlocutors, who this time are we, the readers.
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