Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy explores a wide range of constructs not captured in the DSM or traditional research but that play important roles in psychotherapy cases. To provide readers with a tool bag of practical techniques they can use in these cases, editors William O′Donohue and Steven R. Graybar present chapters written by leading clinical authorities on such topics as the process of change in psychotherapy, attachment and terror management, projective identification, terminating psychotherapy therapeutically, shame and its many ramifications for clients, dream work, boundaries, forgiveness, the repressed and recovered memory debate, and many others. Each chapter includes a definition of the construct, along with sections on theory, the construct′s possible roles in pathology and treatment, measurement, intervention strategies, case illustrations, and future research.
Features
- Addresses in a practical manner complex patients who do not fall under empirically supported treatments or diagnostic categories
- Covers in a scholarly and clinically useful way critically important constructs often neglected in academic discourse
- Explores issues with measurement limitations in an intellectually honest manner
- Offers a tool bag of practical techniques
Table of Content
Introduction: Where Science meets Practice – William O′Donohue, Steven Graybar
Ch 2: The Scientist Practitioner and Dynamic Constructs – Michael Lavin
Ch 3: The (Dramatic) Process of Psychotherapy – Jeffrey Zeig
Ch 4: Avoiding an Ice Patch on the Slippery Slope: Clinical Practice and the issue of repressed memories – William Follette, Deborah Davis
Ch 5: Theory and Methods for Studying the Influence of Unconscious Processes – Deborah Davis, Aaron Mc Vean
Ch 6: Meditation, Ego and I: Who, exactly, is in conflict? – Kenneth Cloke
Ch 7: Family Influences and Ecological Context – James Maddock, Linda Friel, Linda Friel
Ch 8: A Psychoanalytical Understanding of the Death Instinct: Problems in Receiving the Good Object – Robert Waska
Ch 9: Countertransference: A foundation of Psychotherapy – Jeffrey Corpuel
Ch 10: Projective Identification – Patricia Chatham
Ch 11: Mindfulness: Being Mindful in Psychotherapy – Akihiko Masuda, Kelly Wilson
Ch 12: The Science of Forgiveness – David Antonuccio, Robert Jackson
Ch 13: Dream/Work in Psychotherapy: A narrative common-sense approach – Lois Parker
Ch 14: Shame – William Hahn
Ch 15: Treatment of Clients who are struggling with Depression – James Overholser, Nicole Peak
Ch 16: Therapeutic Boundaries and Effective Therapy: Exploring the Relationships – Ofer Zur
Ch 17: Terminating Psychotherapy Therapeutically – Steven Graybar
About the author
Steve Graybar received his B.S. in Psychology from Northern Arizona University. He received his M.A. in 1987 and Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Nevada, Reno. Currently he divides his time between his work at the University of Nevada and his private practice. He was honored by the Nevada State Psychological Association for career contributions related to his seven years of work on the Nevada Board of Psychological Examiners.
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