Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy - (Martin Buber Library) by Judith Agassi

About the Book

This volume covers Martin Buber's views on psychology and psychotherapy, exploring the work of practitioners such as Freud and Jung. Contents include: distance and relation; healing through meeting; Buber and Jung; elements of the interhuman; and guilt and guilt feelings.

Book Synopsis

"Buber came to play a role in the development of so-called third force psychology. . . . In the exchange between Buber and [Carl] Rogers, one can see how far they both were from the world of Freud, which presumes an omniscient analyst dealing with curiously foolish neurotics. Freud's aloofness might have been self deception,
but he never advocated anything like the mutual give-and-take that Buber and Rogers had in mind. . . . Buber's mind was in another world from that of early psychoanalysis, and the passage of time has shown how relevant his thinking can be to how we approach the healing professions."--from the Introduction

About the Author

Judith Buber Agassi has taught sociology and political science at universities in the United States, Canada, Israel, Europe, and Asia. She is currently working at Tel Aviv University on a research project about Jewish prisoners in the women's concentration camp Ravensbrück.