Will Therapy

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Will Therapy is a seminal psychoanalytic work by Otto Rank that emphasizes the central role of human will and creativity in psychological development and treatment.

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instanceOf book
psychoanalytic work
associatedWith Rankian psychotherapy
short-term psychotherapy approaches
author Otto Rank
contrastsWith classical Freudian drive theory
critiques overemphasis on past determinants in classical analysis
discussedIn history of psychoanalysis literature
emphasizes central role of human will in personality
client’s active participation in therapy
creative self-affirmation
individual autonomy
field clinical psychology
psychotherapy theory
focusesOn patient’s capacity for choice
patient’s responsibility for life decisions
transformation of will conflicts
genre psychoanalysis
psychology
hasReputation seminal work in Rankian psychoanalysis
influenced client-centered therapy
existential psychotherapy
humanistic psychology
influencedBy Otto Rank’s theory of the will
Sigmund Freud
keyConcept creative will
resistance as expression of will
separation and individuation
therapeutic relationship as collaboration
will as organizing principle of personality
language German
mainTopic creativity
psychological development
psychotherapy
will
originalTitle Willenspsychologie
publicationPeriod 1920s
1930s
relatedWorkByAuthor Art and Artist
The Trauma of Birth
stresses creative reconstruction of the self
here-and-now therapeutic experience
theoreticalOrientation humanistic
psychoanalytic
usedIn training of psychotherapists

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Otto Rank notableWork Will Therapy
Otto Rosenfeld notableWork Will Therapy