Persuasion and Healing

A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy

Jerome D. Frank, Julia B. Frank (George Washington University), Bruce E. Wampold (University of Wisconsin--Madison) , Thomas R. Insel

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Johns Hopkins University Press
18 March 2025

Psychological methodology; Psychotherapy

A thorough update of Jerome Frank's groundbreaking work on the science and philosophy of psychotherapy.

In this updated edition of Persuasion and Healing, Julia B. Frank, MD, and Bruce E. Wampold, PhD, examine psychological healing in both scientific and cultural terms, building upon Jerome D. Frank and his colleagues' sixty years of research into the mechanisms of psychotherapy and the nature of therapeutic relationships.

J. D. Frank's insights into the common features of effective psychotherapy shed light on an enormous range of therapeutic activities, from professional care offered by people of diverse training to faith healing, indigenous healing, relief of suffering in medical illness, and other disruptions of people's relationships and core beliefs. This edition applies Frank's scientifically supported, transdiagnostic, humanistic principles to narrative and cognitive behavioral individual and group psychotherapies in both traditional and newer forms. The authors look beyond the bounds of professional services, discussing applications of the principles of psychotherapy that promote resilience in the face of the increasing worldwide burden of mental illnesses and demoralization related to rapid technological change, cultural dislocation, violence, and disasters of many kinds. Therapeutic innovations supported by Frank's work range from the training and deployment of lay mental health workers in low-resource areas to digitally enhanced care.

This classic work is a must-read for anyone dedicated to understanding psychotherapy in all its forms as the application of the compassionate principles of persuasion and healing to the mental health challenges of a troubled world.

By: Jerome D. Frank, Julia B. Frank (George Washington University), Bruce E. Wampold (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
Foreword by: Thomas R. Insel
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: updated edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781421451374
ISBN 10: 1421451379
Pages: 488
Publication Date: 18 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Replaced By: 9780801846366
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jerome D. Frank, MD, PhD, (1909–2005), was a social psychologist and psychiatrist whose research into psychotherapy extended from World War II through sixty years as a clinician and professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Julia B. Frank, MD, also a psychiatric educator, is an emeritus professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine, a coauthor of the third edition of Persuasion and Healing, and a coeditor of the third edition of The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care. Bruce E. Wampold, PhD, is an emeritus professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the author of The Great Psychotherapy Debate: The Evidence for What Makes Psychotherapy Work, and the former director of the Research Institute at the Modum Bad Psychiatric Center in Norway.