Adult Personality Growth in Psychotherapy
Adult Personality Growth in Psychotherapy
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USDThis book will expand your therapeutic repertoire. Once crises have been resolved, the clinician and patient explore what can change in order to increase the patient's capacities for balance, harmony and satisfaction. Adult personality growth increases self-awareness, amplifies capacities for realistic social cognition and reduces avoidances. The outcome is the achievement of a wider range of safe emotional expression and mastery of previous traumas and losses. The three parts of this book are on identity, relationships and control of emotion. The chapters illustrate how observation, formulation and technique are linked in a continuing process of deepening understanding. Vignettes give examples of what the therapist can say to help a patient, especially at difficult times in treatment. This is a cutting-edge work integrating elements from various schools of psychotherapy and studies of adult development. It links theories to pragmatic techniques and will appeal to both trainees and experienced clinicians.
- Illustrates how formulating the reasons for maladaptive patterns allows insight that promotes a new understanding and hopefulness for the future
- Readers will learn to tolerate the ambiguities almost always present in the early phases of psychotherapy
- Vignettes will guide therapists through difficult phases of treatment
Reviews & endorsements
'This is an easy and rewarding book to read. The writing is clear and not overly technical, and theory is always immediately linked to its clinical applications and illustrated via highly useful case vignettes.' Jerry Gold, PsycCRITIQUES
Product details
November 2016Adobe eBook Reader
9781316599020
0 pages
0kg
6 b/w illus. 12 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Advancing personality growth in psychotherapy
- Part I. Self-Organization:
- 2. Self-organization
- 3. Identity functioning and self-states
- 4. Possibilities for change in self-narratives
- Part II. Relationships:
- 5. Changing relationship patterns
- 6. Advancing relationship capacities
- 7. Improving maladaptive patterns in sexual relationships
- Part III. Control and Emotional Regulation:
- 8. Control of unconscious emotional potentials
- 9. Defensive styles
- 10. Emotional avoidance maneuvers
- References
- Index.
