Daniel Araoz - The Symptom Is Not the Whole Story: Psychoanalysis for Non-Psychoanalysts

ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR THE SYMPTOM IS NOT THE WHOLE STORY

I consider Daniel Araozs book a creative achievement of great significance. This is a must for all mental health professionals who would like to grasp the essence of psychoanalysis and its application to understanding human behavior and its dysfunction. Dr. Araozs in-depth knowledge of the field and extensive experience in psychodynamic therapy enriches the importance of his work. He provides all practitioners with astute and succinct explanations of the principles of psychoanalysis that will transform the clients understanding of his condition and view of life to a healthy state of being.

THE REV. DR. NISHAN J. NAGARIAN , LMHC, Clergy and Associate Professor of Education, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University

In The Symptom Is Not the Whole Story, Dr. Araoz brings together the many facets of training and practicing in psychotherapy that have dominated his own experience over a lifetimes dedication to his work as a counselor educator, hypnotherapist, and marriage and family therapist. That he should now show us how psychoanalysis has a crucial role in our own training and practice as professional counselors/psychotherapists will be a lasting contribution in our field.

Psychoanalysis came to be viewed in many negative ways, causing many to discard it as narrow, biased, useless. In the old adage, there was a tendency to throw out the baby with the bathwater, to fail to see the positive possibilities and wisdom in psychoanalytic theory. As is true with much of the work in our field, psychotherapy is and always will be a dynamic, ever-changing, ever-growing process. Dr. Araoz makes this abundantly clear and, in doing so, brings psychoanalysis into the twenty-first century. Most importantly, his ideas and recommendations make psychoanalysis, especially in its understanding of the unconscious, accessible to all who grow in their own training and assist others to do so in their work with clients. Psychoanalytic techniques and understandings have significant applications in the repertoire of counselors/psychotherapists in whatever may be their areas of practice and specialization. Dr. Araoz brings all of us closer to putting them into practice and, ultimately, becoming better practitioners as a result.

CAROLYN S. HEWSON , Ph.D., Counseling and Development Department, Professor Emeritus, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University

This book makes a major contribution to the field of mental health counseling, in particular to the training needs of mental health professionals. Araozs thoughtful and readable text serves as a basic primer for the introduction and application of psychoanalytic understanding, principles, and techniques in therapeutic practice. Beginning counselors, for example, will learn how to expand their awareness of the dynamics inherent in the counseling relationship so that they can integrate theoretical concepts and interview skills with an attunement to their own and their clients feelings as they work to understand presenting problems as often representative of more profound character structure. I highly recommend this book as a classic companion to any beginning mental health professionals library.

ROBERT DURFEY , Ph.D., Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York

Copyright 2006 Daniel Araoz

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Araoz, Daniel L., 1930

The symptom is not the whole story : psychoanalysis for non-psychoanalysts / Daniel Araoz.

p.; cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-59051-217-3 (alk. paper)

1. PsychoanalysisPopular works. I. Title.

[DNLM: 1. Psychoanalytic TheoryCase Reports.

2. Psychoanalytic TherapyCase Reports. 3. Unconscious (Psychology)Case Reports.

WM 460 A662s 2006]

RC508.A73 2006

616.8917dc22

2006007098

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To my grandchildren Kaylee, Malcolm,

Luke, Ava, Emma, and Juliet

May their unconscious help them

always to live a full life.

and

To the memory of Ross Thalheimer, Ph.D. Inspiration, role-model, mentor, and founder of the American Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Inc.

NOTE

To avoid sexist language I alternatively use feminine and masculine genders in pronouns throughout the book. I also use the terms client and patient as well as counseling and therapy interchangeably.