The power of specificity in psychotherapy : when therapy works-- and when it doesn't /
Bacal, Howard A.
Carlton, Lucyann,1949-
Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth : Jason Aronson,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The need for a new theory of therapy -- The use of theory in psychoanalytic practice -- How specificity theory changes clinical practice -- The neurobiological substrate of specificity theory -- The evolution of specificity theory : a professional and personal odyssey -- The foundational perspectives of specificity theory -- Clinical consequences of the shift from the universality of structure to the specificity of process -- How specificity theory alters our view of psychoanalytic concepts and principles and how this affects therapeutic action -- Correlates of specificity theory within infant research -- The power of specificity in the process of supervision.
Psychotherapy.
Psychoanalysis.