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Author Frederickson, Jon, author

Title Co-creating change : effective dynamic therapy techniques / Jon Frederickson
Published [United States] : Seven Leaves Press : Made available through hoopla, 2013

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Contents Establishing an effective focus -- Feelings : where we focus in therapy -- Anxiety : the first detour from feelings -- Defenses : the second detour from feelings -- Tactical and repressive defenses -- Psychodiagnosis : co-creating an effective focus -- Inquiry : co-creating a conscious therapeutic alliance -- Building a capacity in fragile patients -- Treating fragility, depression, and somatization -- Building self-observing capacity -- Regressive defenses -- Defensive affects -- Helping the highly resistant patient -- Superego pathology -- Superego pathology : addressing character defenses -- Superego pathology : transference resistance -- Breakthrough to the unconscious -- Consolidation -- Conclusion
Summary Do you have patients who are "stuck" and resist change? Would you like to help the 50 percent of patients who drop out of therapy before they have received its full benefits?To be successful therapists must know how to intervene to help patients experience previously avoided feelings. Co-Creating Change provides clear systematic steps for assessing patients' needs and intervening. Every technique is illustrated with a clinical vignette. The vignettes-representing hundreds of therapeutic impasses taken from actual sessions-show the therapists what to say so they can - Assess and respond to patients' need moment by moment. - Help patients develop and keep an effective focus that leads to change. - Help regulate patients' anxiety. - Teach patients to see and let go of their defenses. - Help patients stop resisting and start collaborating in therapy. - Facilitate patients who uses treatment-destructive defenses
Subject Psychodynamic psychotherapy -- Technique
Psychotherapy, Brief -- methods
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
Technique
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780988378858
098837885X
Other Titles Effective dynamic therapy techniques