| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword / Lester Luborsky -- Mastery as a Central Ingredient in Psychotherapy -- Theory and Basis of Mastery -- A Theory of Mastery Through Psychotherapy -- Mastery and Current Trends in Psychotherapy -- Measuring Mastery -- The Mastery Scale Method -- Reliability and Validity of the Mastery Scale -- Using the Mastery Concept in Clinical Practice -- How Psychotherapists Help Patients Develop Mastery -- Mastery and Interpersonal Relations: Therapeutic Alliance, Transference, and Core Relationships With Parents and Lovers -- Mastery and Different Client Populations: Depression, Personality Disorders, and Substance Dependence -- The Process of Mastery: Present Status and Future Directions |
| Summary |
Presents new discoveries about an important process in psychotherapy: the client's development of mastery over symptoms, conflicts, and problems. In this volume, mastery is defined as an ingredient common to all forms of therapy that helps clients develop both self-understanding and self-control. The book demonstrates how the process of mastery works and how it can significantly reduce clients' symptoms and help them respond to emotional conflicts with greater flexibility. In this volume, the development of mastery is meaningfully related to changes in the therapeutic alliance, transference, and close interpersonal relationships. The author promotes an approach to clinical work that is informed and responsive to research findings irrespective of the specific form of therapy conducted by the clinician. He attempts to apply a new methodology to studying the psychotherapeutic process using verbatim transcripts as the evidential base. The results contribute to an understanding of what makes psychotherapy effective and how this knowledge can help guide the practicing clinician. This book is a resource for psychotherapy practitioners as well as researchers interested in psychodynamic processes, integrated approaches, and common factors to therapeutic success. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Psychotherapy.
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Interpersonal conflict.
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Metacognition.
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Conflict (Psychology)
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Learning.
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Social psychology.
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Motivation (Psychology)
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Human information processing.
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Educational psychology.
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Psychology, Applied.
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Psychotherapy -- methods
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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
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Psychology, Social
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Motivation
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Mental Processes
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Psychology, Educational
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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
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Psychological Phenomena and Processes
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Psychology, Applied
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Psychiatry and Psychology
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Psychotherapy
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Conflict, Psychological
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Interpersonal Relations
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Learning
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social psychology.
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Interpersonal conflict
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Metacognition
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Psychotherapy
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Methods (Music)
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Electronic book
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American Psychological Association.
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