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In an era where instant gratification has filtered into training
programs geared toward technique-driven solutions, Embracing
Therapeutic Complexity takes a step back and re-introduces
fundamental touchstones that enable clinicians to apply an
integrative treatment model in the service of in-depth healing and
growth. Using attachment theory as a bridge, this text connects key
principles and practices that cut across various therapeutic
disciplines and combines them into a unified framework where
readers do not have to "put aside" their expertise in order to
benefit from the skill sets provided in this book. In addition,
this text addresses the impact that power and privilege have had on
shaping our psychological constructs, and it challenges cultural
assumptions and blind spots that have shaped our treatment
approaches in the past. Furthermore, this book illustrates how the
application of psychodynamic principles can be combined with
advances in trauma treatment, thus offering a practical guide for
both beginning and seasoned therapists to amplify and expand their
current clinical expertise.
In an era where instant gratification has filtered into training
programs geared toward technique-driven solutions, Embracing
Therapeutic Complexity takes a step back and re-introduces
fundamental touchstones that enable clinicians to apply an
integrative treatment model in the service of in-depth healing and
growth. Using attachment theory as a bridge, this text connects key
principles and practices that cut across various therapeutic
disciplines and combines them into a unified framework where
readers do not have to "put aside" their expertise in order to
benefit from the skill sets provided in this book. In addition,
this text addresses the impact that power and privilege have had on
shaping our psychological constructs, and it challenges cultural
assumptions and blind spots that have shaped our treatment
approaches in the past. Furthermore, this book illustrates how the
application of psychodynamic principles can be combined with
advances in trauma treatment, thus offering a practical guide for
both beginning and seasoned therapists to amplify and expand their
current clinical expertise.
Uncovering the Resilient Core provides a comprehensive and
inclusive methodology that guides the therapist into the nuances
and complexities of the therapeutic relationship throughout the
entire course of treatment. With its psychodynamic/relational
orientation, this Workbook is unique in that it begins with
character pathology in its widest spectrum and moves in depth to
understanding and treating corrosive shame, dissociation, trauma
and narcissism, including narcissism's many hidden cultural and
dynamic manifestations. The applied nature of this text draws from
a wide variety of case examples as well as progressive therapeutic
techniques designed to help deepen therapeutic listening skills.
Training concepts are organically linked to videotaped treatment
examples, with ample discussion questions and case analyses that
can be used in your own supervision groups. These videos can be
found on www.routledge.com/9781138183285 and serve as companion
illustrations closely following the learning points in the text
itself.
Uncovering the Resilient Core provides a comprehensive and
inclusive methodology that guides the therapist into the nuances
and complexities of the therapeutic relationship throughout the
entire course of treatment. With its psychodynamic/relational
orientation, this Workbook is unique in that it begins with
character pathology in its widest spectrum and moves in depth to
understanding and treating corrosive shame, dissociation, trauma
and narcissism, including narcissism's many hidden cultural and
dynamic manifestations. The applied nature of this text draws from
a wide variety of case examples as well as progressive therapeutic
techniques designed to help deepen therapeutic listening skills.
Training concepts are organically linked to videotaped treatment
examples, with ample discussion questions and case analyses that
can be used in your own supervision groups. These videos can be
found on www.routledge.com/9781138183285 and serve as companion
illustrations closely following the learning points in the text
itself.
This manual has been written for a wide range of dynamic
practitioners involved in treating patients with
narcissistically-infused issues. The treatment model and case
material presented in Listening with Purpose cover the spectrum of
narcissistic vulnerability and may be applied to the relatively
intact patient as well as to the relatively impaired patient.
Throughout, it refers to issues of narcissistic vulnerability, from
a perspective that assumes narcissistic mechanisms are implicated
in all levels of personality functioning and in all people. They
exist both in therapists and clients differing only in the level of
prominence and degree of disturbance in the personality. Cutting
across several schools of thought, this treatment manual places
shame and its derivatives at the very center of narcissistic
vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities which create character splits and
dissociative phenomena in their wake. One can wonder if therapists
have avoided looking at shame because of its contagious qualities.
Human experience has demonstrated that shame is a ubiquitous
emotion, yet when individuals encounter shame it places them in a
seemingly paradoxical position which looks much like a dissociated
limbo state with no way out. We experience it and yet don't
experience it, we see it and don't see it, we feel it and don't
feel it. Therapists and mental health professionals cannot
adequately treat unexamined shame from within its core unless he or
she finds a compatible language for the theory that informs the
interventions. In particular, the theory cannot replicate
pre-existing splits embedded within a treatment paradigm and cannot
be weighted with theoretical underpinnings that are distancing,
objectifying, or removed. The authors have proposed instead an
innovative paradigm-shifting model that is very explicit in
recommending an experience-near, moment-to-moment immersion in the
conflicted and often disoriented life of patients. Unlike existing
volumes in the field, Listening with Purpose: Entry Points into
Shame and Narcissistic Vulnerability is by design replete with
copious down-to-earth examples to help guide one's systemic shift
in treatment focus, treatment emphasis, and treatment posture. The
shift involves healing on many levels and opens up for
re-examination and re-assessment heretofore difficult-to-treat
cases of trauma, dissociation, character disturbances, and
addictive disorders.
This manual has been written for a wide range of dynamic
practitioners involved in treating patients with
narcissistically-infused issues. The treatment model and case
material presented in Listening with Purpose cover the spectrum of
narcissistic vulnerability and may be applied to the relatively
intact patient as well as to the relatively impaired patient.
Throughout, it refers to issues of narcissistic vulnerability, from
a perspective that assumes narcissistic mechanisms are implicated
in all levels of personality functioning and in all people. They
exist both in therapists and clients differing only in the level of
prominence and degree of disturbance in the personality. Cutting
across several schools of thought, this treatment manual places
shame and its derivatives at the very center of narcissistic
vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities which create character splits and
dissociative phenomena in their wake. One can wonder if therapists
have avoided looking at shame because of its contagious qualities.
Human experience has demonstrated that shame is a ubiquitous
emotion, yet when individuals encounter shame it places them in a
seemingly paradoxical position which looks much like a dissociated
limbo state with no way out. We experience it and yet don't
experience it, we see it and don't see it, we feel it and don't
feel it. Therapists and mental health professionals cannot
adequately treat unexamined shame from within its core unless he or
she finds a compatible language for the theory that informs the
interventions. In particular, the theory cannot replicate
pre-existing splits embedded within a treatment paradigm and cannot
be weighted with theoretical underpinnings that are distancing,
objectifying, or removed. The authors have proposed instead an
innovative paradigm-shifting model that is very explicit in
recommending an experience-near, moment-to-moment immersion in the
conflicted and often disoriented life of patients. Unlike existing
volumes in the field, Listening with Purpose: Entry Points into
Shame and Narcissistic Vulnerability is by design replete with
copious down-to-earth examples to help guide one's systemic shift
in treatment focus, treatment emphasis, and treatment posture. The
shift involves healing on many levels and opens up for
re-examination and re-assessment heretofore difficult-to-treat
cases of trauma, dissociation, character disturbances, and
addictive disorders.
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