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Book SynopsisI have often stated to students that I felt that one of the most important characteristics of a psychotherapist is the ability to tolerate ambiguity.
Table of ContentsI: The Dialectics of Motivation.- One Language and Intention.- The Cooperative Principle.- Assessment of the Intentions of Others.- Behavioral Cues.- The Search for Behavioral Cues.- Two Mixed Motivation and Language.- The Dialectical Perspective.- The Dialectics of Motivation.- The Dialectics of Language.- Universal Grammar.- Three Ambiguity.- Types of Ambiguity.- Motivational Ambiguity.- The Semantics of Intrapsychic Conflict.- Responses to Ambiguity.- The Semantics of the Game without End.- Four Selfishness and Altruism.- The Paradox of American Individualism.- Altruism Masquerading as Selfishness.- Mortification.- Five Distancing.- The Evolution of Social Roles.- Parent-Child Distancing.- Role Function Support.- II: Deciphering Motivation in Therapy.- Six Deciphering Motivation in Psychotherapy.- Recognizing Hidden Double Meanings.- Verifying the Hypothesis.- Presentation of the Hypothesis.- Seven Statements as Behavioral Cues: Case Examples.- Eight The Language of Self-Suppression: Case Examples.- Altruism Masked as Selfishness.- The Language of Mortification.- Nine The Language of Role Function Ambivalence: Case Examples.- Ambivalence: Self-Expectations.- Ambivalence: Expectations of Others.- The Language of Distancing.- Conclusion.- References.- Index to Cases and Statements.
