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Title: |
Making Psychotherapy Work
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| Sub Title: |
Collaborating Effectively with Your Patient |
| Authors: |
Steven A. Frankel, M.D. |
| Pub Date: |
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| Binding: |
Paper |
| Price: |
$47.00 |
| ISBN: |
1-887841-57-1 |
| Status: |
Available |
| Description: |
" In the field of psychotherapy there is no more important question than what makes therapy work. In this important new book, Steven Frankel explores this complex issue with characteristic openness, honesty, and originality. By identifying and explicating those elements that are essential to change, Frankel accomplishes what few authors before him have been able to achieve. He provides a clear, thoughtful and practically useful answer to the question of how psychotherapy actually heals. And in doing so he provides and invaluable contribution to our field." -- Theordore J. Jacobs, M.D.
"There is a lot of Straight talk in this, Dr. Frankel's most personal and courageous book. With unswerving honesty he describes the bind between the invocations of therapeutic authority and not knowing that he sees as an inevitable and necessary component of effective psychotherapy.
This book introduces Dr. Frankel's conjunctive model of therapeutic collaboration. He demonstrates the model's utility through a series of cases and vignettes dealing with technical issues ranging from the therapist's self-disclosure to the involvement of a consultant. And suddenly, we as readers realize that he has managed to propel us right in the middle of the collaboration. Any therapist will find this experience a little disorienting, paralleling the shared not knowing that Dr. Frankel views as transformative. In this process he sets a standard for uniquely helpful practice." -- Philip Erdberg, Ph.D.
"In this thoughtful and evocative book Steve Frankel seeks to answer the basic question, how does fundamental change occur? Frankel's Honest, Courageous and Straightforward discussion of his own clinical experience shows that the therapist must be willing to engage in a highly collaborative relationship in which the therapist and patient are deeply affected and profoundly changed. This important new book will be thought-provoking and stimulating for therapists at all levels of experience." -- Darlene Bergman Eherenberg, Ph.D.
"In Making Psychotherapy Work, Steven Frankel expands his earlier discussion of therapeutic disjunctions and their repair. Frankel passionately argues for a treatment model in which the therapist deliberately seeks conjunction and moves beyond the traditional therapeutic frame. Rich in evocative and highly readable clinical illustrations, this book challenges many traditional psychoanalytic ideas. Frankel's exposition emphasizes the centrality of therapeutic accountability and integrity. He is willing to ask the hard questions and step outside the theoretical and clinical box." -- Joyce Anne Slichower, Ph.D. |
Table of
Contents: |
The Conjunctive Model of Psychotherapy.
The Structure of the Conjunctive Therapy Process.
The Influences in the Therapy Field.
The Therapist's Responsibilty.
The Patient Leads.
Working Consensus: How Patient and Therapist Decide What to do.
Finding the Balance Between the Disjunctive and Conjunctive: Authenticity.
Self-Revelation.
Toward Creative Change and Development: The Conjunctive Sequence.
Extending the Conjunctive Model: Focused, Time-Limited Psychotherapy. |
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