Psychoanalytical Psychology, Physician & Patient, Mental Health Services & Personnel, Psychoanalysis, Methodology - Psychology, Psychotherapy
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Overview
Widely acclaimed for his insightful book on resolving patients' resistances in psychotherapy, Dr Strean now addresses the virtually neglected problem of therapists' counterresistances - the fantasies, defenses, and other elements of the therapist's own psychological makeup that can impede the therapeutic process. At the core of this book is a crucial question: If the therapist cannot or will not confront his or her own resistances, how can the patient be expected to?; The book begins with a clear conceptualization of counterresistance in psychotherapy. Subsequent chapters focus on the ways in which counterresistance manifests itself in the initial, middle, and closing phases of therapy. Case vignettes delineate essential features of various tupes of counterresistance and show how and when to combat them.Deals with conflicts & anxieties of practitioners, provides case illustrations focusing on therapist, etc.
Editorials
Booknews
Dealing exclusively with the conflicts and anxieties of the practitioner, Strean (director, New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training) helps therapists understand and accept counterresistance as a necessary dimension of psychotherapy, and provides new information and ideas on coping with and resolving its numerous manifestations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
July 3, 2003
Publisher
New York : Brunner/Mazel, c1993.
Pages
258
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780876307137