Cognitive Psychodynamics as an Integrative Framework in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy

✍ Scribed by Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book proposes a novel method of combining the current approaches to counselling and psychotherapy into one coherent framework. The authors argue that the cognitive behavioural tradition (largely focused on thought patterns) and the psychodynamic approach (centred on the client’s experience and relationships), can be successfully integrated with insights from cognitive neuroscience, to form a fruitful synthesis. In doing so they provide a perspective that will enable practitioners to more fully appreciate each client’s unique inner world, based on their individual history and environment.

The authors point towards the brain’s innate ability to understand and learn from experience so as to direct the growth of that inner world. This book elaborates a method of tapping into this innate growth potential, so as to help clients move forward when they have become trapped in non-productive patterns or mental stalemates. It will provide fresh insights and a valuable resource for counselling psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists, as well as for academics and students in these fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
The Psychotherapeutic Landscape at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 1-23
Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 25-52
In Search of the Good Life (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 53-67
Defined by Our Past (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 69-88
Principles of Cognitive Psychodynamic Therapy (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 89-104
When Life Loses Its Lustre (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 105-130
Traumatic Experiences: When the Home Collapses (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 131-159
Invaded by Threat: Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Thoughts (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 161-189
Possible Worlds (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 191-216
Two Paradigms to Explore Inner Worlds: Spatial and Fictional Navigation (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 217-240
High-Level Navigation (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 241-262
Conclusions and Future Directions (Tony Ward, Arnaud Plagnol)....Pages 263-269
Back Matter ....Pages 271-277

✦ Subjects

Psychology; Psychotherapy and Counseling; Psychological Methods/Evaluation; Cognitive Psychology; Counselling and Interpersonal Skills; Existential approach; Integrative and pluralistic approach