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Breakdown and breakthrough
Breakdown and Breakthrough
examines the essential role of regression
in the patient’s recovery from mental illness. In light of this, Nathan
Field reassesses the role of the therapist, tracing psychotherapy
back to its earliest spiritual roots and comparing modern analytic
methods with ancient practices of healing and exorcism. The author
uses vivid examples from his psychotherapeutic practice to show
how, with the apparent breakdown of the therapeutic method itself,
patients can break through to a new level of functioning.
The book goes on to consider how psychotherapy has been
affected by fundamental developments in twentieth-century
science, such as the move from old, classical assumptions of linear
causation to non-linear complexity; from reductionism to a holistic-
systems approach; from mental mechanisms to acknowledging the
mysteries of unconscious interaction. Taking up the radical vision
originally proposed by Carl Jung and later fostered by eminent
psychotherapists such as Winnicott and Bion, the author shows
how psychotherapy can be reframed to admit the existence of a
psychological fourth dimension.
Nathan Field reappraises ideas of health and pathology,
psychoanalysis and healing, sex and spirituality in light of a
dramatic shift in the way we understand ourselves. How this shift
alters the shape of psychotherapy in the twenty-first century is the
challenge that practitioners, teachers and trainees must all address.
Nathan Field
is an Analytical Psychotherapist with over thirty
years’ experience. He works in private practice in London.
Breakdown and
breakthrough
Psychotherapy in a new dimension
Nathan Field
London and New York
First published 1996
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© 1996 Nathan Field
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,
mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter
invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission
in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British
Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Field, Nathan, 1924–
Breakdown and breakthrough: psychotherapy in a new
dimension/Nathan Field
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Regression (Psychology)—Therapeutic use. 2. Psycho-
analysis.
I. Title
RC489.R42F54 1996
616.89’14–dc20
96–5997
CIP
ISBN 0-203-42760-2 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-73584-6 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-10957-4 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-10958-2 (pbk)

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