Description
This title combines the many schools of thought on psychotherapy into one reader-friendly guide that coaches psychotherapists through the various techniques needed as the field expands. Unlike any other book on the market, this text considers all of the simultaneous advances in the field, including the neurobiology of emotions, the importance of the therapeutic relationship, mindfulness meditation, and the role of the body in healing. Written with genuine respect for all traditions from CBT to psychodynamics, the book unifies views of psychopathology and cure based on the notion of the mind-brain as an organ of affect regulation. The book accounts for the tasks that characterize psychotherapist activity in all therapies, how they are performed, and how they result in therapeutic change. The book also reviews the various pathologies seen in general practice and guides the reader to the specific therapist-patient interactions needed for their resolution. With its big-picture focus on clinical practice, Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide is a concise resource for students, psychotherapists, psychologists, residents, and all who seek to integrate what is new in psychotherapy. Jeffery Smith, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York. Acknowledgments Foreword by Dr. James Bourgeois 1. Introduction PART I: How Therapy Works 2. Layers of Pathology 3. The Affect Avoidance Model 4. Avoidance Patterns and Mechanisms 5. How Affects Are Healed 6. A Context of Connection 7. Motivation, Internal and External 8. A Developmental Primer PART II: What Therapists Do 9. Conducting an Initial Assessment 10. Conducting Generic Talk Therapy 11. Building and Maintaining the Therapeutic Relationship 12. Working with the Inner Child 13. Adjustments PART III: A Catalog of EDPs 14. Seven Behavioral EDPs 15. Addictions 16. The First Helper: Emotion 17. The Second Helper: Conscience-Based Emotion 18. The Third Helper: Thoughts 19. Involuntary Symptoms: Grief and Depression 20. Involuntary Symptoms: Anxiety-Related Problems 21. Involuntary Symptoms: Trauma and Dissociation 22. Going Forward
