For the first 1 O0 years of psychotherapy, the goal has been to understand the nature of emotional disturbance. However, as this book shows, the basic curative factor in today s multitude of psychotherapies is not the pursuit of the underlying truths of emotional disorders. To the contrary, therapists are offering patients a variety of fabrications and defenses designed to falsify and preclude the realization of the painful emotional truths that form the basis of mental suffering. Psychotherapy, be vention, encounter group, or it psychoanalysis, crisis inter- behavior modification, offers \"cure\" through lies and barriers, rather than through genuine insight. The published material in the field of psychotherapy, discussed in the first section of this volume, is indeed cause for alarm. It provides us with every reason to believe there has been an unrecognized unconscious collusion between patients and therapists that is detrimental to the curative process while providing some measure of pathological satis- faction for both participants to treatment. The sources and manifestations of this inevitably human conspiracy become clear when we turn, in the second part of the book, to the origins of modern-day psychotherapy and psychoanalysis--to the painful struggles of Sigmund Freud
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