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Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy
Murray Bowen (1913-1990) was the first to study the family in a
live-in setting and describe specific details about how families
function as systems. His theories dominated family therapy for
decades. This book, written by one of his closet collaborators,
updates his still-radical theory with the latest approaches to
understanding emotional development.
Unusual focus on healing factional divisions in psychoanalysis *
Contains contributions from internationally respected clinicians *
Offers a thoughtful and practical guide to working effectively with
other analysts in a variety of settings
Since 1994, the Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG) has
published articles on the most fundamental of therapeutic concepts:
change. However, the BCPSG s evolving interests and points of focus
have been wide-ranging, if always thematically linked by a
connection to change. With Change in Psychotherapy: A Unifying
Paradigm, the evolution of the group s thinking and work has been
collected into a book for the first time.
The Group s initial areas of research have since been recognized
as central to psychotherapeutic thought. For example, the BCPSG has
long focused on bringing insights from the study of infancy to bear
on thinking about psychoanalytic processes. In its earliest work,
the group looked to early development as a source of inspiration
and knowledge, and as a possible way to illuminate change processes
in psychotherapy. Today, developmental researchers and
neuroscientists increasingly locate keys to psychological health
and development in the earliest interactions between mother and
infant. This book, which consists of significant papers by the
BCPSG, traces the group s contributions to psychoanalytic topics of
note, including: the location of the implicit, the creation of
meaning, the moment-by-moment clinical process, and the subjective
experience of the therapist. The book also includes new
introductions to selected chapters, which provide background on the
original intent and reception of each article. Change in
Psychotherapy presents the essential findings from an
internationally acclaimed group of analysts in a single volume for
the first time. In this, it is a truly groundbreaking work."
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the fastest-growing
psychotherapy in the world today, largely because it has been
clinically-tested and found effective for a broad range of
psychiatric and psychological problems. CBT has strong clinical
support from both clients and clinicians who like its collaborative
process that uses practical tools and strategies for solving
everyday problems.
The challenge for many clinicians is finding practical ways to
integrate empirically-supported therapies into everyday clinical
practice with clients. While there are many outstanding books on
the theory and practice of cognitive-behavioral therapies, the CBT
Skills Workbook provides over 100 of the top hands-on practical
worksheets and exercises to help clinicians integrate CBT into
practice. The exercises and worksheets are designed to provide
powerful tools that can be used in individual or group sessions and
as homework assignments.
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