Summary of main ideas Rank was the first to see therapy as a learning and unlearning experience focusing on feelings. The therapeutic relationship allows the patient to: (1) learn more creative ways of thinking, feeling and being in the here-and-now; and (2) unlearn self-destructive ways of thinking, feeling and being in the here-and-now. Patterns of self-destruction ("neurosis") represent a failure of creativity and not, as Freud assumed, a retreat from sexuality.
Summary of main ideas Rank was the first to see therapy as a learning and unlearning experience focusing on feelings The therapeutic relationship allows the patient to (1) learn more creative ways of thinking feeling and being in the here-and-now; and (2) unlearn self-destructive ways of thinking feeling and being in the here-and-now Patterns of self-destruction ("neurosis") represent a failure of creativity and not as Freud assumed a retreat from sexuality