The Psychotherapeutic Stance

• Main Author: Jørgensen, Carsten René (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Quality of life.; Philosophy of mind.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Quality of Life Research.; Philosophy of Mind.

This book provides a thorough critique of the dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy and argues for a dynamic relational understanding of psychotherapy, deeply founded in the most important results from empirical psychotherapy research. In the first part, the book critically examines the...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Part 1: What Can We Learn From Psychotherapy Research?
• Chapter 2. Psychotherapy as Sociocultural Practice
• Chapter 3. Medical vs. Dynamic-Relational Model of Psychotherapy
• Chapter 4. Common Therapeutic Factors
• Chapter 5. Randomized Controlled Trials
• Chapter 6. The Efficacy of Specific Treatment Methods
• Chapter 7. The Good Therapist
• Part 2: The Psychotherapeutic Stance
• chapter 8. The Basis of the Psychotherapeutic Stance
• Chapter 9. The Historical Bedrock of Psychotherapy. Freud's Contribution - and Contemporary Corrections
• Chapter 10. What Characterizes the Psychotherapeutic Stance?
• Chapter 11. Channels of Communication and Levels in the Therapeutic Relationship
• Chapter 12. Conclusion
• References.