Therapy of the feeling.

The authors present a new form of therapy which succeeds>> they say, because it is a way of life. After explaining the origins of this therapy>> bom from the therapists* need to be themselves>> they present the psychopathological theory of disorder>> rooted in the child's reception of inappropriate responses to his expression of feeling. They then explain the five-stage cycle of feeling: The Actual feeling-level; the sensation of defenses; the sensation of the defense-creating events; the patient acting in a new manner; the patient living at a new feeling-level. Next presented is the therapeutic community based on affective ties>> as well as the concepts of co-therapy (patients help each other) and the "break thru" dream>> in which process is emphasized.