Strategies of Psychotherapy"This is a book about the strategies of psychotherapists and patients as they maneuver each other in the process of treatment. How a therapist induces a patient to change, and why the patient changes, is described within a framework of interpersonal theory. A variety of methods of psychotherapy are described with the general argument that the cause of psychotherapeutic change resides in the therapeutic paradoxes these methods have in common. Such diverse forms of therapy as psychoanalysis, directive therapy and family therapy appear different when viewed in terms of individual psychology, but the methods can be shown to be formally similar if one examines the peculiar types of relationship established between patients and therapists. Since this approach focuses upon the relationship between two or more people rather than upon the single individual, the emphasis is upon communicative behavior. When human beings are described in terms of levels of communication, psychiatric problems and their resolution appear in a new perspective. This book is the result of the author's investigation of methods of psychotherapy from the point of view of the paradoxes posed by psychotherapists"--Preface |
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Symptoms as Tactics in Human Relationships | 1 |
How Hypnotist and Subject Maneuver Each Other | 20 |
Techniques of Directive Therapy | 41 |
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