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Craft and Spirit - A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Paperback)
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Craft and Spirit - A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Paperback)
Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
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In Craft and Spirit, Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of
exploratory psychotherapy, by which he means the creative skill -
even artistry - that mobilizes the spirit of inquiry in therapist
and patient and sustains it over the course of psychotherapy. He
expatiates on this craft as it pertains to patients of our time -
patients who typically bring to therapy backgrounds of insecure
attachment and serious concerns about safety and retraumatization.
In each of ten chapters, Lichtenberg formulates a different
guideline for technique, keyed to the broad domain of exploratory
psychotherapies and are accompanied by numerous clinical
illustrations. These guidelines seek to foster greater therapist
involvement without compromising an openness to psychological
exploration. They seek to sensitize therapists to the two
interlacing tracks of communication that unfold in treatment: those
of verbal exchange and of enactive messages. And they help guide
therapist attention among interpenetrating domains of the patient's
subjectivity, the therapist's subjectivity, and the intersubjective
realm that emerges from their collaborative experience. Fusing the
humanist tradition of therapeutic inquiry with knowledge gained
from recent infancy and child research, Lichtenberg develops
guidelines suitable to exploratory therapy with patients who
communicate not only verbally but also through diverse affect
states and altered cognitions. Consistently illuminating on the
parallels and disjunctions between caregiver-child and
therapist-patient relationships, Lichtenberg is clear about the
adult-to-adult dimension of exploratory work in which "provision"
is necessarily subordinate to "inquiry." Craft and Spirit is aimed
equally at prospective patients, therapists, and analysts, all of
whom will be edified by this masterful demonstration of the ways in
which a spirit of inquiry imbues the craft of psychotherapy, in
Lichtenberg's words, "with its liveliness of sustained purpose."
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