Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments in Psychiatry
This outstanding book breaks new ground by creating a united states of psychotherapy. One volume contains the best theory and practice of the major psychotherapies written lucidly by their leading proponents. Gabbard and colleagues also succeed in wedding modern neurobiology and psychopharmacology to the talking cure. In thus advancing psychiatric treatment the authors treat the reader to something old, something new, something borrowed, and something true. --David Spiegel, M.D., Willson Professor & Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Co-Editor of Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment; Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental HealtThis landmark volume fills an essential niche in the field of mental health. It presents the diverse and evolving field of psychotherapy, both theory and practice, in a scholarly yet immediately accessible way. The editors and authors, all experts in their fields, have given us a text that can be used to define a curriculum for training as well as an indispensable resource for mental health clinicians at every level of experience. Dr. Gabbard has coordinated an essential psychotherapy text that could not have been written until now and will enhance the lives of clinicians and their patients well into the future. --David A. Goldberg, M.D., Past President and Executive Director, American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT), Past President, Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP), Vice Chair for Education, California Pacific Medical CGlen Gabbard s Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments is a timely and valuable antidote to the common current belief that medication is the panacea for psychiatric patients. Covering theory, technique, indications and efficacy, his comprehensive review of a full range of psychotherapies is just what trainees and practicing psychiatrists need to help them achieve the competency in psychotherapy now mandated for psychiatry residencies by the Residency Review Committee. The rich examples and vignettes, evidence-based efficacy data and additional sections on combined treatments provide a road map for clinicians and are a boon to the field. --Lisa A. Mellman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry