| Description |
x, 198 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The mother-daughter bond and its implications for understanding the therapeutic relationship -- Embracing resistance to build attachment -- When parents collude with their daughter's resistance -- Challenging resistance and sustaining attachment -- The going gets tough when the patient gets angry -- Attachment to a therapist is not always therapeutic: recognizing malignant regression -- Beyond idealization: fostering genuine intimacy and mutuality -- Repetition as a path to new experience -- Allowing for attachment after therapy ends |
| Summary |
"Adolescent girls and young women in therapy - even those who genuinely desire change - often are highly ambivalent and difficult to engage. From experienced therapist Elizabeth Perl, this book offers fresh insights on the challenges and dilemmas that these patients face and provides powerful strategies to enhance clinical work." "Filled with in-depth examples, the book presents a psychodynamic perspective that is grounded in attachment theory and developmental knowledge. Perl helps the reader understand a young woman's conflict between her attachment and dependence on her parents and her efforts to be autonomous, and how this may play out in seemingly treatment-rejecting behavior. She demonstrates innovative ways to embrace resistance - rather than fighting it - in order to overcome impasses and cultivate a strong therapeutic relationship that can get to the root of self-defeating patterns." |
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"This book belongs on the desks of mental health professionals in a range of settings, including clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, family therapists, and school psychologists and counselors."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index |
| Subject |
Adolescent psychotherapy.
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Teenage girls -- Mental health.
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Attachment behavior.
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Psychotherapy -- Methods.
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Parent and child.
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| LC no. |
2007047335 |
| ISBN |
9781593856519 (alk. paper) |
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1593856512 (alk. paper) |
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