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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8914
EAN num: 9781572308107
ISBN number: 1572308109
Label: The Guilford Press
Manufacturer: The Guilford Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 310
Printing Date: January 24, 2003
Publishing house: The Guilford Press
Sale Popularity Level: 122584
Studio: The Guilford Press
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Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Easy-to-use manual providing the basics of practicing short-term dynamic psychotherapy. Demonstrated are procedures for assessing patients, formulating core conflicts, and restructuring defenses, affects, and relationship to the self and others. Offers case examples and write-in exercises to build key skills. For therapists. Softcover.
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Treating Affect Phobia is a manual for short-term work with relatively high-functioning individuals whose emotional blocks influence their work, relationships, or their quality of life. Novices and senior clinicians alike will find this manual useful. It focuses psychodynamic work by combining the exposure work of CBT, and it elaborates CBT by including exposure to avoided emotions. The writing is clear and direct. There is enough specificity for a novice, and the exercises at the end of the chapters help the reader to absorb and practice the material. Those clinicians with a CBT background will find the book refreshingly present-focused. The explanation of defenses and the careful working with defenses and anxiety-regulation are clear and understandable even without a psychodynamic background. For those unfamiliar with exposure therapy, the book offers a radical way of enhancing comfort with avoided affect.
For the senior clinician, the book offers a unique and efficient approach to short-term dynamic Psychotherapy, but there is enough subtlety for repeated readings.
The book targets high-functioning individuals (those with a GAF score 50 or above), but has chapters on working with those with less stable object relations. I have found that the model can be adapted for those with a lower GAF.
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The authors have produced a very clear presentation of how to identify and treat psychodynamic conflicts using active methods. For the beginning therapist, it offers a step by step detailed approach. For the more advanced therapist, it has a very clear and useful organization that provides a resource for thinking about the stuck places in therapy. Both supervisors and supervisees will find it helpful.
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This is the only "manual" I recommend to supervisees or seasoned colleagues. It is a wonderful "how-to" for psychotherapists, and so much more. Integrating elements from both psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral traditions, it offers a simple yet powerful conceptual framework for understanding inner psychological conflict. The model clearly illuminates how maladaptive behavior in a client (or anyone)represents their best effort at avoiding feared emotional states. In creating so much conceptual clarity, it allows the therapist to more readily arrive at a place of compassion and effective intervention. Numerous and creative strategies are suggested for working with inner conflict, often in the context of clinical vignettes illustrating exemplary and inspiring work of mature and compassionate therapists. It never trivializes the depth of human suffering. This is a wonderful book!
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Affect Phobia is a brilliant clinical model, the Triangle of Conflict is a teaching tool of beauty, and this manual is a pleasure to read. The theory is creatively integrative and above all functional. I find my thinking clarified, I know how to stay on track when a client's avoidant behavior takes center stage, and at all times I have guidance in attending to emotion. My recommendation is: buy it, read it, share it with the people you supervise! Your work will be enriched.
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This is without a doubt the clearest book I have ever read about how to understand and formulate psychodynamic conflict, and how to address it in psychotherapy. Integrating elements of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal models, the manual is at once respectful of clients and a very good "how-to" for therapists at any level. It is deceptively simple, in that appears to be for those new to the field, but in fact it is astute and complex.
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