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This book shows that the therapist's subjectivity is not merely countertransference, but an indispensable component of the therapeutic process. The subjective life of the therapist is co-equal to that of the patient in creating the therapeutic transaction. Throughout the book, clinical material from patients, personal data from the therapist, and theoretical discussions weave around one another in a triple helix. Thus, the subjective life of the therapist is manifestly integral to and inseparable from the verbal and nonverbal behaviour of the patient.
This volume recounts how personal events in the life of a therapist affect therapy and transference and countertransference. Leading psychotherapists share their personal experiences of the effects of life events such as illness, pregnancy, divorce, and malpractice suits on therapy. Through its poignant descriptions of life's intrusions on the therapeutic process, this volume offers guidance for therapists on practicing in the real world.
Examines postmodernism and its expression in family therapy, raising questions about realities and realness, the subjective process of truth, and the experience of self.
This book explores how the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis took shape and examines the role played in it by Sandor Ferenczi. It integrates the Hungarian story of the "exile of the Budapest School" with an American perspective on "solidarity in the psychoanalytic movement during the Nazi years".
In this tribute to Selma Kramer, eminent child analyst and colleague and close friend of the late Margaret Mahler, senior analysts explore the continuing relevance of Mahler's separation-individuation theory to developmental and clinical issues. Editors Salman Akhtar and Henri Parens have grouped the original contributions to Beyond the Symbiotic Orbit into sections that reevaluate Mahler's theory. Section I is a timely reassessment of Mahler's working model from the standpoint of contemporary clinical and research findings. It includes comparisons of Mahler with Winnicott and Kohut, and commentaries on the status of separation-individuation theory in relation to psychosexual theory, early ego development, and observational infancy research. Section II addresses the contribution of separation-individuation theory to our understanding of pathogenesis. Neurosis, severe character pathology, psychosomatic phenomena, eating disorders, and sexual perversions are among the topics of specific chapters. The final section explores the role of separation-individuation theory in the treatment of analysands of different ages and with different kinds of psychopathology; it also considers separation-individuation theory with respect to specific aspects of the treatment process, including reconstruction, transference, and termination. A fresh reappraisal of a major perspective on early development, Beyond the Symbiotic Orbit is a fitting testimonial to Selma Kramer, who has played so important a role in elaborating Mahler's theory. Following from Kramer's own example, the contributors show how separation-individuation theory, in its ability to accomodate ongoing clinical and research findings, is subject to continuing growth and refinement. They not only advance our understanding of Mahler's working model, but pursue the implications of this model in new directions, underscoring the many areas of exploration that separation-individuation theory opens to us.
Beyond Medication focuses on the creation and evolution of the therapeutic relationship as the agent of change in the recovery from psychosis. Organized from the clinician’s point of view, this practical guidebook moves directly into the heart of the therapeutic process with a sequence of chapters that outline the progressive steps of engagement necessary to recovery. Both the editors and contributors challenge the established medical model by placing the therapeutic relationship at the centre of the treatment process, thus supplanting medication as the single most important element in recovery. Divided into three parts, topics of focus include: Strengthening the patient The mechanism of therapeutic change Sustaining the therapeutic approach. This book will be essential reading for all mental health professionals working with psychosis including psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- INTRODUCTION -- Attending to Therapeutic Catalysts -- The Common Factors Hypothesis -- The Need for Greater Scientific Grounding -- The Need for Integration --Chapter 1. The Therapeutic Relationship: Beyond This Point of Convergence Toward a Standardized Terminology -- Interpersonal Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship -- Nonverbal Behavior and the Therapeutic Relationship -- Limitations of the Intrapsychic Approach to Psychotherapy Research -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Universal Variables: Toward a Higher-Order Theory -- A Discovery Investigation--Unraveling "What Has Already Occurred" Narrowing the Research Focus -- Developing a Common Framework -- The Need for a Scientific Theory -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Nonverbal Behavior, Information Processing, and Interpersonal Communication in Psychotherapy -- An Overview of Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Communication Theory -- Nonverbal Therapist Behavior as Nonspecific Nonverbal Behavioral Research in Psychotherapy -- Delineating Psychotherapeutic Variables -- The Need for Operationalism in Psychotherapy -- The Therapeutic versus Interpersonal Relationship -- Facilitative versus Growth-Inhibiting Behaviors -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Face-to-Face Interaction: The Behavioral, Biological, and Cognitive Relevance of Dominant Eye Contact in Psychotherapy -- Eye Contact Research in Psychotherapy -- The Significance of Eye Contact in the Therapeutic Relationship -- The Significance of Eye Dominance in Psychotherapy -- Eye Contact and Information Processing -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Intensive Experiential Exploration: The Psychobiological Significance of Client Verbalization and Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy -- The Self in Psychotherapy Affect, Catharsis, and Self-Disclosure -- Self-Disclosure as Therapeutic -- Psychobiological Bases of Therapeutic Self-Disclosure -- The Role of the "Other" in Reprocessing of Information -- The Psychotherapeutic Implications of Penfield's Work -- "Blocks" to Information Processing and Interpersonal Communication -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 6. The Talking Cure: Language as a Remedy for, and Source of, Neuroses and Incongruence -- Linguistics and Psychotherapy -- Seeking the Biological Bases of Language and Meaning -- Cognitive and Psychobiological Change Through Language and Discourse Language as a Bridge Between Mind and Brain -- The Genesis of Discursive Psychology -- Mind, Brain, and the Generation of Consciousness Through Language -- Thought and the Formation of the Mind -- Mind and the Phenomenon of Therapeutic Growth -- Therapeutic Growth versus Mental "Illness" -- Language and Discourse as a Remedy for Neuroses and Incongruence -- Constructive Language Process, or the "Unconscious"? Language and the Reconstruction of Personal Reality -- Reprocessing Information Through Asymmetric Relationships -- Therapeutic Outcome: Facilitating Self-Growth -- The Asymmetrical Talking "Cure" -- Autonomous Processes: The "Hardware" Underlying the "Software" -- Language as a Source of Neuroses and Incongruence -- Neural Limitations Underlying Reasoning -- Bridging the "Gap" Without the "Black Box" -- "Trapped" Within the Self -- Anxiety as a Signal for Change -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Facilitative Therapist Behaviors as a Modus Operandi: Integrative Eclecticism Within Transtheoretical and Common Factors -- Integration Scientific Roadblocks -- Facilitating the Re-Creation of the Client's "Design" Toward Unifying the Person -- Asymmetry as a Universal Psychotherapeutic Characteristic -- Facilitative Face-to-Face Interaction -- Facilitative Nonverbal Interaction in Psychotherapy Communication as an Aggregate or Holistic Phenomenon -- Unobstructed Asymmetrical Communication as a Modus Operandi -- The Ideological Legacy Helping Clients -- Shoulder the Burden of Change -- A Final Variable: Length of Session.
Brief Therapy and Beyond is a collection of new and selected papers by prominent psychologist Michael Hoyt. Numerous clinical vignettes and informative discussions describe time-sensitive treatments to relieve psychological distress and/or promote growth. Drawing from an encyclopedic knowledge of the professional literature as well as humor, poetry, sports, and candid revelation, Hoyt illustrates the importance of stories, language, love, hope, and time in shaping worldviews that inspire and empower clients and clinicians to make effective and efficient changes.
The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation since Freud's death in 1939. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make the full scope of twentieth century psychoanalytic thinking—from Harry Stack Sullivan to Jacques Lacan; D.W. Winnicott to Melanie Klein—available for the first time. Richly illustrated with case examples, this lively, jargon-free introduction makes modern psychoanalytic thought accessible at last.
This book presents a comprehensive survey of motivations to practice psychotherapy through the extensive review of the available literature and discussion of the result of a qualitative study of therapists conducted by the author."--BOOK JACKET.