Beyond the Couch

Reviews the book, The Practice of Conjoint Therapy: Combining Individual and Group Treatment by Louis R. Ormont and Herbert S. Strean (see record 1979-21520-000). The reviewer's overall reaction to this book is that the ideas are familiar, but the language has been changed. Ormont and Strean are psychoanalysts--not strict, Freudian analysts, to be sure, but they do speak the jargon of psychoanalysis--and so tend to make much use of words like transference and resistance. For a slim volume, a fair amount of space is devoted to a minicourse in psychoanalytic theory and practice, which led the reviewer to presume that the book's intended audience is those practitioners whose sojourn into psychoanalysis ended with a personality course in graduate school. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)