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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 298 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Abraham W. Wolf, Marvin R. Goldfriend, and J. Christopher Muran -- Part I. Negative reactions across therapeutic approaches -- ch. 1. Power plays, negotiation, and mutual recognition in the therapeutic alliance : "I never met a client I didn't like . . . eventually" / J. Christopher Muran and Clara Hungr -- ch. 2. Cognitive behavior therapy : a rich but implicit relational framework within which to deal with therapist frustrations / Phillip G. Levendusky and David H. Rosmarin -- ch. 3. Therapist negative reactions : a person-centered and experiential psychotherapy perspective / Robert Elliott -- ch. 4. Difficulties with clients in Gottman method couples therapy / John M. Gottman and Julie S. Gottman -- ch. 5. Managing negative reactions to clients in conjoint therapy : it's not all in the family / Laurie Heatherington, Myrna L. Friedlander, and Valentin Escudero -- ch. 6. Compassion amidst oppression : increasing cultural competence for managing difficult dialogues in psychotherapy / Laura S. Brown -- Part II. Borderline personality disorder -- ch. 7. Therapist compassion : a dialectical behavior therapy perspective / Shelley McMain and Carmen Wieve -- ch. 8. Managing negative reactions to clients with borderline personality disorder in transference-focused psychotherapy / John F. Clarkin and Frank Yeomans -- Part III. Managing negative reactions across other disorders -- ch. 9. Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy : working with reactions to chronically depressed clients / Hanna Levenson -- ch. 10. Pattern recognition in the treatment of narcissistic disorders : countertransference from a unified perspective / Jeffrey J. Magnavita -- ch. 11. Negative reactions to subtance-using clients : where the reactions come from, what they are, and what to do about them / Frederick Rotgers -- Conclusion and clinical guidelines / Abraham W. Wolf, Marvin F. Goldfried, and J. Christopher Muran. |
| Summary |
"The goal of this book is to help psychotherapists better understand, manage, and transform the wide range of emotions they experience while conducting psychotherapy and to help them use these experiences to facilitate an understanding of their clients and a strengthening of the therapeutic alliance. Affective modes of communication are central to everyday discourse, yet psychotherapists have tended to marginalize their personal reactions to clients as idiosyncratic and subjective--or, worse, devalue them as intrusive, counterproductive, and unprofessional. This book is based on the premise that the affective states therapists experience when treating clients are frequently a consequence of interacting with clients who experience intense emotions and have problematic interpersonal behaviors. In addition to tracking their clients' affective states, therapists need to monitor and regulate their own affective reactions. If therapists fail to recognize such emotional reactions, or perceive them only as noise in the therapeutic process, they risk missing an important source of data that may directly or indirectly affect the therapeutic alliance and negatively influence treatment outcomes. By increasing their awareness of how clients throw them off balance, therapists are more likely to develop a more compassionate stance toward both their clients and themselves. With the exception of psychoanalytic work on countertransference, little has been written on the therapist's affective experience while conducting psychotherapy. This book adopts an integrative perspective, arguing that all therapists, regardless of orientation, are vulnerable to a wide range of problematic emotions, and all practitioners will increase their understanding of the process of psychotherapy by acknowledging how their reactions are an important source of clinical data"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Psychotherapist and patient.
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Therapeutic alliance.
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Psychotherapeutic Processes.
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Psychotherapy.
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| Added Author |
Wolf, Abraham W., 1950-
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Goldfried, Marvin R.
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Muran, J. Christopher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Transforming negative reactions to clients. 1st ed. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2013 9781433811876 (DLC) 2012005206 (OCoLC)784123470 |
| Standard No. |
10.1037/13940-000 doi |
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