Clinician technique in personalized psychotherapy / Mardi Horowitz.
| Author/creator | Horowitz, Mardi Jon, 1934- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Association Publishing, [2025] |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Stages of Psychotherapy -- Formulating -- Choosing What to Say in the Present Moment -- Techniques When Obstacles Stall Progress -- Paying Attention to the Patient's Current Level of Personality Functioning -- Correcting Schemas from Experiences in a Therapeutic Alliance -- Managing Narcissistic Traits -- Confronting Dilemmas by Assertion of a Therapeutic Alliance -- Assessing for Change During Treatment. |
| Abstract | "During psychotherapy, clinicians combine techniques from various modalities they learn from training, continuing education, and experience. Clinician Technique in Personalized Psychotherapy aims to help them by considering how to understand the individual patient in the present. This book is a guide for considering theory and practice as an integrative process of continuous formulation that individuals experience as they go through stages of psychotherapy. Patients and therapists may stem from communities and families that are culturally different. As they converse, the hope is that they will come to share purposes and frameworks of belief. Confronting possibly different value systems can aid in building the most important aspect of change, the therapeutic alliance. Enriching the therapeutic alliance through deepening states of work with a patient is a topic across the chapters. The book begins with describing the stages of psychotherapy, then progresses to describe ways for formulating and reformulating as therapy progresses. A states-of-mind approach allows consideration of the motivations for safety and threat mastery even at the surface of conversations, before the depth of preconscious schemas is considered. Next, the schemas that organize states and maladaptive patterns in some states are considered. Chapter 7 addresses the difficult problems presented by patients with narcissistic traits. Chapter 8 describes how to deal with the dilemmas therapists commonly experience in deeper treatments. Chapter 9 provides ways to consider whether change is taking place in a language that emphasizes positive life experiences. Two simple self-report scales can be reproduced and used to track change. The case examples throughout are fictionalized composites of multiple therapeutic encounters. Key terms are listed in the Glossary"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025010670 |
| ISBN | 9798894551241 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |