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The Process of Psychotherapy: Causation and Chance
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This book is designed as a reference source for professional psychotherapists, and as a text for a course in psychotherapy. Its purpose is to reach students of psychology, psychiatry, and social work. It claims to "provide the reader with the newest, most creative and most effective" guidance in psychotherapeutic method. The approach is psychodynamic with due recognition of the person and emphasis on interpersonal relationship as a major healing vehicle. The writers are outstanding members in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. Included are Drs. Salzman, Chrzanowski, Schiffer, Rose Spiegel, and Wolman.
Psychotherapy: Essence, Experience, and Examination
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Foreword to Dieter Adler: What we Truly Need – Experiences of a Psychoanalyst. In any serious, scientific, and ethically justified healthcare profession, the focus should be always on the overall health, treatment, improvement, and amelioration of the patient. What clinical and professional background should therefore a mental health professional have? In his book, Adler does not want to simply offer a quick guide to self-help. In fact, he is clear about the fact that this is not the purpose of the book: “Maybe I’ll write one sometime: How you can reliably become independent of self-help books.” In fact, this book is a reflection on a 30-year-long professional career in which the author has learned to ask questions, to listen attentively, and to help shed light on some of the most complex and hidden aspects of what makes us human. To be sure, this does not mean that this book does not present a practical approach to well-being, quite the contrary. The author lists a series of areas the patient can focus on, in order to achieve a higher state of balance, healing, and happiness. Amongst these we find socialization, upbringing, and community, making friends, understanding and working on one’s emotions and the emotions of others, staying physically and mentally active, finding a sense of security and confidence, maintaining a sense of curiosity, finding a work-life balance and rediscovering peace and calmness, having goals, purposes, and meaning in life, and of course, understanding those negative, self-sabotaging mechanisms and processes which hinder such developments.
Review of Comprehensive handbook of psychotherapy integration
Psychotherapy, 1994
Although there are a number of volumes available now that purport to give an overview of the field of psychotherapy, none is more ambitious or extensive than this four-volume work produced under the general editorship of Florence Kaslow. She is one of the most prolific contributors in the United States to the topics of life span developmental psychology and family psychology. This initial volume, under the specific editorship of Jeffrey J. Magnavita, is an excellent introduction to the multivolume set. The text consists of 25 chapters, organized into six different sections. The first three sections address psychotherapy for three different age stratifications: children, adolescents, and adults. Sections IV and V address couples and family therapy, and group therapy, respectively. The closing section VI addresses "special topics," which turn out to include group interventions in therapeutic communities, cardiac patients, and ethnic and gender topics, as these have a bearing on transference in psychotherapy. This is followed by a closing summary of the entire volume by Magnavita. The arrangement of the first three sections is relatively unique in volumes of this type, in that they address developmental issues literally in a developmental sequence, discussing first those psychological problems commonly encountered in treatment of children, then moving up the age span to adolescents and young adults, and finally to adult patients. Despite the title of the volume, no one scheme of dynamically informed psychotherapy seems favored over others, and several of the individual chapter writers appear to have gone out of their way to speak to clinical issues, without the highly technical jargon so typical in psychoanalytic and many psychodynamic works. In fact, nondynamic clinicians will usually be able to follow the formulations offered for treatment, and several writers have included much case material, sensitively handled, in their illustrations of technique. Another intriguing feature of this particular volume is its exposition of treatment methods in relation to certain well-known, but not necessarily well-understood, clinical phenomena. So, several chapter writers address inhibited adult sexual desire, which may arise from trauma and "objectification" (Chenoweth); clinical syndromes in which there are multiple comorbidities, perhaps attached to adults as well as offspring in a family relational context (Magnavita); and group therapy techniques with schizophrenic patients (Guimon). Moreover, several chapters address problematic patient interactions in an extremely practical way, often highly applicable even to acute care treatment settings-such as hospitals and specialty clinics-which are commonplace now in the care of such physical illnesses as cancer and heart disease (e.g., Chapter 23 by Dornelas & Thompson on "Psychodynamic Treatment for Cardiac Patients"). A nonmedical application of this same pragmatic orientation may be found in the chapter, "A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy," by Muran and Safran, who invite the therapist (and in their model, the therapist then invites the patient) to oscillate between content and process, attending in several specific ways to their experiences and thus to their contributions to dyadic ruptures and, ultimately, to mutuality. Their methods seem especially likely to be applicable to a broad range of clinical circumstances, partly because they are for the most part brief and specific and partly because they acknowledge the immediate experience of both patient and therapist, in a way that avoids obscurity. This volume edited by Magnavita is certainly worth its cost. Although each chapter may not be sufficiently strong to merit equal attention, there is much merit here to warrant the scrutiny of most eclectic, as well as most psychodynamically inclined, therapists. Caveats involved in this reading must also be noted. There is still a strong Book Reviews 382 This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.
Social Service Review, 1979
Ideology and theory have most often served as justification for the value of alternate approaches to formal helping. Analytic, behavioristic, and humanistic interventions have each found their defense in competing values and theoretical frameworks. As a consequence, debates concerning the superiority of one or another form of helping have been hopelessly deadlocked in the absence of ideological consensus and theoretical homogeneity. As Charles Pierce has observed, when arguments are based on a priori, intuitive reasoning, given differences of opinion among equally rational observers, who is to be considered correct? As approaches to formal helping have multiplied into the hundreds, this richness of alternatives has placed practitioners and students in a potentially bewildering and frustrating position. The options have appeared to be either arbitrary dogmatism or roving eclecticism. Yet, a rapidly changing societal climate in which concern for effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability are of paramount importance has made such subjective intervention increasingly untenable. Clients, individually and collectively, are actively demanding effective assistance, thus transforming their personal troubles into public issues. A new pragmatism is emerging in the helping professions, and this pragmatism is seeking its justification not in ideology or theory but, rather, in empirically demonstrated effectiveness and efficiency. Critics of this empirical pragmatism see dangers. Its epistemology is seen as anti-intellectual and atheoretical, and its concern for observables is seen as depreciating the value of the spirit. Its emphasis on controlled scientific study is seen as mechanistic and insensitive to the uniqueness of the individual. Partializing the individual into observable units sufficient to permit scientific study is seen as resulting in extreme oversimplification. And, as if these criticisms were not sufficient, it is pointed out that while placing a premium on objectivity this empirical pragmatism is grounded in the subjective domain of a scientific ideology. Permission to reprint a book review printed in this section may be obtained only from the author.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
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Principles of Psychotherapy: By Irving Weiner. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. 328 pp
Clinical Psychology Review, 2002
How prescriptive should an author be in explaining the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy? One extreme is to emphasize a broad range of common practices, presenting several different methods of case formulation, responses to resistance, or guidelines for interpretation. This method can provide clinicians with a well-stocked toolbox that they can select from based on their own penchants and the needs of their clients. But even if the author is careful to include criteria for determining which techniques to use, the lack of clear direction can leave readers paralyzed or without a firm understanding of potential difficulties, especially if they are inexperienced therapists. The opposite extreme, typified by treatment manuals, is to advocate strongly for one coherent style, presenting a relatively prescriptive method. If done well, acknowledging some limitations and subjectivity, this method gives therapists firm rules to cling to while navigating through psychotherapy, rules that reflect established clinical wisdom. However, especially when wandering far from empirically supported recommendations, the author risks being dogmatic and failing to give readers clear ideas on when and how it would be appropriate to break the rules he has handed down. In Principles of Psychotherapy, Irving Weiner leans toward the latter method, providing a valuable step-by-step approach to the general practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Yet sometimes in recommending his methods in unequivocal terms, he fails to address how the same goals might be reached by different means. While broadening his approach would have lengthened the book, it might also have made his ideas more compelling to some readers by providing a more comprehensive context in which to understand and evaluate them.