Abstract
This is a vanity press publication. Dr Peseschkian is a follower of the Baha'i religion and a physician practicing in Germany, presumably with Iranian expatriate patients. He has noted that resistance, repetition, and impasse are consulting room problems and, with the aid of his aunt and others, found that proverbs are useful in relieving the tensions of inquiry and confrontation. The analogies contained in stories from the classical poets, recited in the therapeutic session, lead patients to insight and self-therapy, much as the clever Scheherazade led the mentally ill sultan back to health. The method described in this book suggests that Dr Peseschkian is an innovative therapist. This impression is strengthened when one reads that he has developed a completely new psychotherapy called differential analysis, the discoveries of which are said to be described in two previous books, Positive Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice of a New Method, and Psychotherapy of
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