Essential Psychotherapies, Second Edition: Contemporary Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Alan S. Gurman Phd, Stanley B. Messer PhD

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 590
• Edition: Second Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Comprehensive and user-friendly, this widely adopted text presents systematic expositions of the 12 most important forms of psychotherapy being practiced today. Covering traditional treatments as well as influential models that have been developed relatively recently, the volume gives students and practitioners a solid grasp of foundational theories and methods. Eminent authorities describe their respective models in unusually coherent chapters to facilitate easy comparison of basic theoretical and practical concerns. Each chapter also includes a detailed case illustration that brings key concepts to life.

✦ Table of Contents

About the Editors......Page 6
Contributors......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
1. Contemporary Issues in the Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy......Page 11
2. The Theory and Practice of Traditional Psychoanalytic Treatment......Page 34
3. Relational Approaches to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy......Page 79
4. Person-Centered Psychotherapy and Related Experiential Approaches......Page 117
5. Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapies......Page 159
6. Behavior Therapy......Page 192
7. Cognitive Therapy......Page 234
8. Postmodern Approaches to Psychotherapy......Page 282
9. Integrative Approaches to Psychotherapy......Page 327
10. Brief Psychotherapies......Page 360
11. Family Therapies......Page 410
12. Marital Therapies......Page 473
13. Group Psychotherapies......Page 525
Author Index......Page 561
Subject Index......Page 574