Leaders in the field of short-term therapy (including Robert J. Neborsky, Leigh McCullough, Michael Alpert, Francine Shapiro and David Malan) come together here to assess the past 25 years of research into what produces change in dynamic therapy. They present different models including EMDR, anxiety-regulating psychotherapy and empathic therapy.
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Highly recommended:
As a practicing psychologist, I am always looking for ways to improve the efficiency of psychotherapy. Not to satisfy managed care, but to alleviate the pain of my clients. All of us in clinical practice have encountered "difficult clients", those with whom what is helpful to many of our other clients just is not helpful. What does one do when traditional cognitive therapy is not helpful? In my experience, this is when a psychodynamic perspective is most useful. Such a perspective does not necessarily mean... more info
The Science of Dynamic Psychotherapy:
I found this book to be a remarkable and consise description of a complicated topic. The authors summarized the state of the field of short term dynamic therapy. They held no information back and identified the areas of controversy, particularly conflicting opinions and data on the use of confrontation in the Davanloo approach versus the approach preferred by McCullough and Alpert. Furthermore, the inclusion of EMDR as a dynamic treatment was inovative and exciting. Neborsky and Solomon's chapter on... more info
Best Available Overview:
The recent no-name reviewer from Atlanta who attacked Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Change's lack of research must have bought some bootleg copy that omitted its hundreds of endnotes and citations. Its dozens of pages of transcribed therapy sessions will hardly be dismissed as "anecdotes" by any mindful reader. The book's six contributors are tops in their fields. Calling them "cheerleaders," as no-name does, is a whooper bordering on delusion. This book is the best available overview of the latest... more info
The problem with only using advocates is you get one side of:
The problem with using advoates as authors is that you only get one side of the story. In the case of EMDR, for instance, there is research that says a) the eye movements are unnecessary and b) its effects do not last as long as Cognitive-Behavior Therapy based exposure procedures. This really undercuts the second part of the title of this book "for Long-Term Change". Stories and anecdotes are often entertaining but for true treatment help see a professional who reads the scientific research and is not a... more info
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