Psychotherapy Process: Current Issues and Future Directions

✍ Scribed by Robert N. Sollod, Paul L. Wachtel (auth.), Michael J. Mahoney (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 401
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Whatever else it may be, psychotherapy offers a clear form of human com­ passion channeled through myriad assumptions about the causes and solu­ tions of human distress. There has, of course, been a longstanding debate about whether the psychotherapist is best described (and trained) as an artisan or a scientist. Volumes of scholarly argument have also addressed such themes as the essential ingredients of psychotherapy, the role of tech­ nique, the importance of client characteristics, and the significance of the therapist's personality. Experts have defended a wide range of opinions on these issues and have mustered evidence to support their individual claims. The purpose of the present volume is neither to defend nor to expand any specific claim about psychotherapy. Rather, it is intended to be a heuristic compendium of contemporary views on this humane endeavor. At the most basic level of analysis, the field of psychotherapy research now faces three fundamental questions: 1. Is psychotherapy effective? 2. When and why is it effective? 3. How should psychotherapists be trained? The latter two questions obviously presume that the first can be answered affirmatively. Although I would hardly defend the generalization that all forms of psychotherapy are effective for all clients, it is equally clear that there is now ample warrant for the contention that some of the things we do in our fifty-minute hours seem to have positive effects.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
A Structural and Transactional Approach to Cognition in Clinical Problems....Pages 1-27
Egocentrism and Evidence....Pages 29-33
The Transpersonal Stance....Pages 35-54
Being One....Pages 55-60
Personal Construct Psychology....Pages 61-83
George Kelly’s Anticipation of Psychology....Pages 85-87
Psychotherapy as Coping Skills Training....Pages 89-119
Cognitive Behavior Therapy as Psychodynamics Revisited....Pages 121-126
Principles of Cognitive Therapy....Pages 127-152
A Manual for a Cognitive Therapy....Pages 153-156
Psychotherapy and the Structure of Personal Revolutions....Pages 157-180
“De-Controlling” Cognition and Cognitive Control....Pages 181-184
Cognitive Behavior and Its Roles in Psychotherapy....Pages 185-201
And Now for Something Completely Different....Pages 203-209
Imaginal Processes....Pages 211-248
Imaginal Processes....Pages 249-253
Biomedical and Health Factors in Psychotherapy....Pages 255-277
Treating the Whole Patient....Pages 279-282
Toward Specifying the “Nonspecific” Factors in Behavior Therapy....Pages 283-307
Catalyzing the Integration of Social-Learning Theory and Behavior Therapy....Pages 309-311
Rhetoric and Psychotherapy....Pages 313-333
Aristotle as Psychotherapist....Pages 335-337
Psychotherapy from the Perspective of Cognitive Theory....Pages 339-361
Commentary: Three Cognitive Psychologies and Their Implications....Pages 363-367
Psychotherapy and Philosophy of Science....Pages 369-393
Psychotherapy and Science....Pages 395-399
Back Matter....Pages 401-403

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general