Working With The Core Relationship Problem In Psychotherapy

In this important book, noted author, teacher, and psychologist Althea J. Horner shows how to reveal, understand, and use the powerful Core Relationship Problem-which is formed from earliest childhood and creates an image of the self in relation to others-so it can act as a Rosetta stone for understanding the underlying conflict that repeatedly plays out in a colonización behavior. Once this essential element is uncovered clinicians can work with their clients to successfully resolve common presenting problems.

Grounded in the author's wealth of research and practical experience, the book is filled with illustrative examples and accessible information that demonstrates how to work with difficult personality types and problematic issues that often surface during the course of therapy. For example, the author explains how to achieve results with clients who exhibit obsessive- compulsive disorder, dissociated states, and Don Juan behavior. She also shows how to react if a client wants to be hugged, offers a gift, or resents paying for treatment. In addition the book offers practical advice on how to handle the difficult issues of transference/countertranference and work with clients who can sabotage the therapeutic process by trying to win over the therapist.

As timely as it is comprehensive, the book offers specific recommendations for dealing with termination issues and offers solutions for the special problems that can arise when working with patients in a managed care environment. The book is also a vital resource for therapists who are in a supervisory position.

Incl. contribution of family system pathology; OCD; working w/dissociated self-states; transference resistance etc.

A clinician's Rosetta Stone for understanding and treating presenting problems

"I highly recommend this book to therapists of all persuasions."—Allan N. Schore, department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine

In this important book, noted author, teacher, and psychologist Althea J. Horner shows how to reveal, understand, and use the powerful core relationship problem — which is formed from earliest childhood and creates an image of the self in relation to others — so it can act as a Rosetta stone for understanding the underlying conflict that repeatedly plays out in a client's behavior. Once this essential element is uncovered, clinicians learn how to work with their clients to successfully resolve common presenting problems.

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This handbook is designed to assist therapists in identifying the patient's core relationship problem early in the treatment and to use this understanding of the problem as a basis for therapy. Topics include the place of the signifier in psychoanalytic object relations theory, the contribution of family system pathology to core relationship problems, common clinical problems associated with the author's approach, the negative therapeutic reaction, and interminable therapy and transference resistance. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

ALTHEA J. HORNER is a distinguished author, teacher, psychologist, and author of many classic and award-winning books including Object Relations and the Developing Ego in Therapy, Being and Loving, The Wish for Power and the Fear of Having It, Treating the Neurotic Patient in Brief Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalytic Object Relations Therapy.