I have often stated to students that I felt that one of the most important characteristics of a psychotherapist is the ability to tolerate ambiguity. As Allen so aptly points out in this creative and valuable book, my observa tion contains an implicit assumption that requires a clear statement in order for it to be understood. Before ambiguity can be tolerated, it must be recognized. The psychotherapist who accepts the presentations of the pa tient at face value is never faced with the difficult problem of tolerating the ambiguity that is so intrinsic to the circumstances that bring many people to treatment. In this volume, Allen has undertaken the task of helping the reader to recognize ambiguity in all of its manifestations, to understand it better, and, having understood it, to help the patient to grow beyond it. Ambiguity, in Allen's view, arises from a dialectical conflict, whether it is between the self and the system, intrapsychic and wholly within the self, or social, when the individual is tom between competing reference groups. Psychotherapy is a process by which the dialectic can be brought to consciousness so that a synthesis can be achieved. The dialectic that engages the individual, and often is played out between the individual and the system, parallels the struggle between attachment and individuation.

Deciphering Motivation in Psychotherapy (Critical Issues in Psychiatry)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Allen, David M.

Psychology & Counseling

Plenum

Analyzing Experimental Data by Regression

Science & Math

Foster, Cady B.

Mathematics

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

This book provides a detailed account of the new techniques used in the rapidly expanding discipline of quantitative pathology. Quantitative pathology is essentially a means of measuring histological samples in the diagnosis and prognosis of disease. The techniques described include: morphometry, photometry, flow cytometry, three-dimensional reconstruction and expert systems. These techniques measure cell count, which is an important indicator of malignant tumors and other forms of cancer.

Quantitative Clinical Pathology

Medical Books

Hamilton, P.

Medicine

Wiley/Blackwell

Psychotherapy With Borderline Patients

Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) or borderline traits are among the most difficult for mental health practitioners to treat. They present an incredible range of symptoms, dysfunctional interpersonal interactions, provocative behavior in therapy, and comorbid psychiatric disturbances. So broad is this array that indeed the disorder constitutes a virtual model for the study of all forms of self-destructive and self-defeating behavior patterns. Psychotherapy With Borderline Patients: An Integrated Approach fills the need for a problem-focused, clinically oriented, and operationalized treatment manual that addresses major ongoing family factors that trigger and reinforce the patient's self-destructive or self-defeating behavior. In it, David Allen draws on the theoretical ideas and techniques of biological, family systems, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral therapists to describe an integrated approach to adults with BPD or borderline traits in individual therapy. Innovative, practical, and specific, the book * helps therapists teach their patients, through the use of various role-playing techniques, strategies to alter the dysfunctional patterns of interaction with their families of origin that reinforce self-destructive behavior or chronic affective symptoms; * explains the nature and origins of the characteristic oscillation of hostile over- and underinvolvement between adults with BPD and those who served as their primary parental figures during childhood; * elucidates the nature and causes of the dysfunctional communication patterns in patients' families that lead to misunderstanding; and * provides concrete, clearly spelled out advice for therapists about how to deal with provocative patient behavior, how to minimize distorted descriptions by patients of significant others, how to avoid patients' misuse of medications, and how to respond to managed care restrictions on patients' insurance coverage. Psychotherapy With Borderline Patients: An Integrated Approach will be welcomed by all clinicians who work with these patients, whatever their training or theoretical orientation.

Psychotherapy With Borderline Patients: An Integrated Approach

Mental Health

Routledge

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Unifying Individual and Family Therapies (JOSSEY BASS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE SERIES)

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

This work shows how family and individual therapy can be integrated. It bases its arguments on concrete examples.

Family Systems Approach to Individual Psychotherapy.

Jason Aronson, Inc.

The Use of the Jewish Scriptures in the Johannine Passion Narrative: That the Scripture May Be Perfected (Interpreting Johannine Literature)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Fortress Academic

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