Ebook: Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration

This Handbook is the culmination of an interest in psychotherapy integration that led to our first professional collaboration in 1978. At that time we undertook (in research conducted for a doctoral dissertation by the second editor and supervised by the senior editor) to understand, from and within a psychodynamic perspective, the experiences of patients who had completed behavioral therapies. At that time, psychotherapy integration was a topic considered viable and interesting by only a few clinicians and scholars, with little communication among them and less awareness, concern, and appreciation on the part of psychotherapists in general. The situation today has changed. The appearance of this Handbook may be taken as a significant sign of maturation and legitimacy of work in psychotherapy integration. It is our hope and expectation that this volume will serve as an up-to-date and exhaustive overview of the status of ongoing scholarly and clinical work in the integration of the major schools of psychotherapy. The Handbook opens with a section that will provide the reader with an overview of the history, sociocultural context, and empirical status of the broad field of psycho­ therapy integration.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Sociohistorical Context of Psychotherapy Integration....Pages 3-8
Empirical Research on Integrative and Eclectic Psychotherapies....Pages 9-25
Empirical Research on Factors in Psychotherapeutic Change....Pages 27-42
Common Factors in Psychotherapy....Pages 43-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Cyclical Psychodynamics....Pages 59-72
Behavioral Psychotherapy....Pages 73-85
Cognitive Analytic Therapy....Pages 87-100
Existential Psychotherapies....Pages 101-112
Toward an Integration of Cognitive, Interpersonal, and Experiential Approaches to Therapy....Pages 113-123
Unified Psychotherapy....Pages 125-137
An Anxiety-Reduction Modification of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (STDP)....Pages 139-149
Prescriptive Psychotherapy....Pages 151-163
The Active Self Model....Pages 165-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
A Hermeneutic Approach to Integration: Psychotherapy within the Circle of Practical Activity....Pages 187-216
A Feminist Framework for Integrative Psychotherapy....Pages 217-235
Integrating Spiritual Healing Approaches and Techniques into Psychotherapy....Pages 237-248
Psychoanalysis and Buddhism Toward an Integration....Pages 249-266
Psychotherapy and Religious Experience....Pages 267-275
A “Social” Clinical Theory of Therapy....Pages 277-290
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders and Phobias....Pages 293-302
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Depression....Pages 303-321
Psychotherapy Integration with Character Disorders....Pages 323-336
Psychotherapy with Substance Abusers....Pages 337-352
Organic Disorders....Pages 353-364
Chronic Pain....Pages 365-384
Severe Mental Disorders....Pages 385-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Couples and Families....Pages 401-412
Integrative Child Therapy....Pages 413-425
Adolescents....Pages 427-436
An Integrative Approach to the Psychotherapy of the Elderly....Pages 437-451
Groups....Pages 453-464
An Integrative Approach to Psychotherapy with Black/African Americans....Pages 465-479
Front Matter....Pages 481-481
Supervision and Instruction in Doctoral Psychotherapy Integration....Pages 483-498
Supervision and Instruction in Postgraduate Psychotherapy Integration....Pages 499-512
Countertransference Issues in Integrative Psychotherapy....Pages 513-522
Front Matter....Pages 523-523
The Therapeutic Interaction in Psychotherapy Integration....Pages 525-531
The Current Status of Psychotherapy Integration....Pages 533-545
Back Matter....Pages 547-561

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Sociohistorical Context of Psychotherapy Integration....Pages 3-8
Empirical Research on Integrative and Eclectic Psychotherapies....Pages 9-25
Empirical Research on Factors in Psychotherapeutic Change....Pages 27-42
Common Factors in Psychotherapy....Pages 43-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Cyclical Psychodynamics....Pages 59-72
Behavioral Psychotherapy....Pages 73-85
Cognitive Analytic Therapy....Pages 87-100
Existential Psychotherapies....Pages 101-112
Toward an Integration of Cognitive, Interpersonal, and Experiential Approaches to Therapy....Pages 113-123
Unified Psychotherapy....Pages 125-137
An Anxiety-Reduction Modification of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (STDP)....Pages 139-149
Prescriptive Psychotherapy....Pages 151-163
The Active Self Model....Pages 165-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
A Hermeneutic Approach to Integration: Psychotherapy within the Circle of Practical Activity....Pages 187-216
A Feminist Framework for Integrative Psychotherapy....Pages 217-235
Integrating Spiritual Healing Approaches and Techniques into Psychotherapy....Pages 237-248
Psychoanalysis and Buddhism Toward an Integration....Pages 249-266
Psychotherapy and Religious Experience....Pages 267-275
A “Social” Clinical Theory of Therapy....Pages 277-290
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders and Phobias....Pages 293-302
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Depression....Pages 303-321
Psychotherapy Integration with Character Disorders....Pages 323-336
Psychotherapy with Substance Abusers....Pages 337-352
Organic Disorders....Pages 353-364
Chronic Pain....Pages 365-384
Severe Mental Disorders....Pages 385-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Couples and Families....Pages 401-412
Integrative Child Therapy....Pages 413-425
Adolescents....Pages 427-436
An Integrative Approach to the Psychotherapy of the Elderly....Pages 437-451
Groups....Pages 453-464
An Integrative Approach to Psychotherapy with Black/African Americans....Pages 465-479
Front Matter....Pages 481-481
Supervision and Instruction in Doctoral Psychotherapy Integration....Pages 483-498
Supervision and Instruction in Postgraduate Psychotherapy Integration....Pages 499-512
Countertransference Issues in Integrative Psychotherapy....Pages 513-522
Front Matter....Pages 523-523
The Therapeutic Interaction in Psychotherapy Integration....Pages 525-531
The Current Status of Psychotherapy Integration....Pages 533-545
Back Matter....Pages 547-561
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