Even if you’re a professional in the mental health field An Outline of Psycho-Analysis is a book worth keeping on your shelf in order to review the basics of psycho-Analysis. Most people don’t even know what psycho-analysis is or what it entails. We just know that it means an individual has problems that need to be dealt with or the first word that comes to us is watch out dude’s got issues. This is because most people keep their problems bottled up inside themselves as oppose to talking about it.
Its language is clear and concise making it capable of demystifying the various psychobabbles that most psychologists spring on their patients often leaving them in the dust and making them feel worse than when they first came in. It also clears up a lot of misconceptions about Freud and his theories about psychoanalysis in the process of being able to make mental health and substance abuse consumers capable of managing their treatment by a mental health professional.
This book is not going to make you an expert in psychoanalysis, but it can make you feel a lot better about it. So that in itself makes it worth reading for both mental health professionals, laymen and the uninitiated. The book moves through various concepts of psychoanalysis and simplifies them to the point that someone attending high school can understand. Thus, an individual attending college or possessing experience in the mental health field should be more than able to grasp its concepts and improve their understanding of the process of psychoanalysis. Because the book simplifies the concepts of Psychoanalysis for everyone one it removes the stigma associated with undergoing therapy.
For therapist’s that include educating their clients about the process of therapy as part of their client’s treatment, the book is a must have. It’s also a must have for students that are first semester psychology students. So the time most students spend reading Cliff Notes to get through their first psychology class can be just as easily spent reading An Outline of Psycho-analysis due to its brevity. The book is worth having and is extremely inexpensive a fact that increases its value to students, clients and mental health professionals.