The Psychotherapeutic Stance [electronic resource] /
Jørgensen, Carsten René.author.
This book provides a thorough critique of the dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy and argues for a dynamic relational understanding of psychotherapy, deeply founded in the most important results from empirical psychotherapy research. In the first part, the book critically examines the traditional focus on technical factors in psychotherapy based on available empirical research on the subject. It asks questions about whether specific techniques cure specific diagnoses or therapists and therapeutic relationships that cure persons. Part II of the book argues that the currently dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy must be challenged by a better understanding of psychopathology and psychotherapy that contextualizes the relationship between therapist and the patient. Overall, this book provides a new approach to some of the most important questions in psychotherapy and discusses what it means to think and work psychotherapeutically. The book is highly relevant for professionals in clinical/psychotherapy training and for advanced courses in psychotherapy, including courses on mentalization-based therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and eclectic psychotherapy. .
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1: What Can We Learn From Psychotherapy Research? -- Chapter 2. Psychotherapy as Sociocultural Practice -- Chapter 3. Medical vs. Dynamic-Relational Model of Psychotherapy -- Chapter 4. Common Therapeutic Factors -- Chapter 5. Randomized Controlled Trials -- Chapter 6. The Efficacy of Specific Treatment Methods -- Chapter 7. The Good Therapist -- Part 2: The Psychotherapeutic Stance -- chapter 8. The Basis of the Psychotherapeutic Stance -- Chapter 9. The Historical Bedrock of Psychotherapy. Freud's Contribution - and Contemporary Corrections -- Chapter 10. What Characterizes the Psychotherapeutic Stance? -- Chapter 11. Channels of Communication and Levels in the Therapeutic Relationship -- Chapter 12. Conclusion -- References.
This book provides a thorough critique of the dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy and argues for a dynamic relational understanding of psychotherapy, deeply founded in the most important results from empirical psychotherapy research. In the first part, the book critically examines the traditional focus on technical factors in psychotherapy based on available empirical research on the subject. It asks questions about whether specific techniques cure specific diagnoses or therapists and therapeutic relationships that cure persons. Part II of the book argues that the currently dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy must be challenged by a better understanding of psychopathology and psychotherapy that contextualizes the relationship between therapist and the patient. Overall, this book provides a new approach to some of the most important questions in psychotherapy and discusses what it means to think and work psychotherapeutically. The book is highly relevant for professionals in clinical/psychotherapy training and for advanced courses in psychotherapy, including courses on mentalization-based therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and eclectic psychotherapy. .
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