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Craft and Spirit - A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Hardcover)
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Craft and Spirit - A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Hardcover)
Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
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In this wonderfully illuminating sequel to A Spirit of Inquiry
(Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage, 2002), 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. In Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory
Psychotherapies 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. These guidelines
were initially set forth in The Clinical Exchange (Lichtenberg,
Lachmann, and Fosshage, 1996); here they are keyed to the broad
domain of exploratory psychotherapies and are accompanied by
numerous clinical illustrations. Lichtenberg's guidelines for
technique grow out of a uniquely contemporary, multidimensional
sensibility. negotiating the dilemmas that inhere in therapy as a
dyadic process in which therapists must sense themselves, and also
be sensed by their patients, as fully and emotionally involved in
the treatment. These guidelines seek to foster greater therapist
involvement without compromising an openness to psychological
exploration. They seek to sensitize therapists to the two
interfacing tracks of communication that unfold in treatment: those
of verbal exchange and of enactive messages. And they help guide
therapist attention among inter-penetrating domains of therapeutic
inquiry that comprise the patient's subjectivity, the therapist's
subjectivity, and the inter-subjective 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. -
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. And he is no less
clear that his guidelines must be employed flexibly and creatively
in the service of a shared spirit of 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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