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Book SynopsisIn the mid 20th century, O. Hobart Mowrer was a celebrated academic psychologist, owing largely to his experiments with animals and humans that led to breakthrough theories on how we learn. His numerous publications in this arena propelled him to the post of President of the American Psychological Association in 1954. His own battles with depression led him to develop a new theory of psychotherapy, which he called Integrity Therapy. The premise of this modality is that the client's deception with people they care about is the source of conscience pangs, but the client resists or represses the prompting of the conscience and this causes his or her psychological symptoms. Treatment, therefore, consists of urging the client to acknowledge his or her hidden behaviors to themselves and to significant others that they might both gain restored community with intimates and the fruits of personal integrity and inner peace ( to come clean about their deceptions and rewarding the confession wi
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"One of the more interesting aspects of this book is the combination of Mowrer’s theory and an introduction to clinical work. It provides both a focus that is enriching, and implicitly provides for a compare and contrast that enhances both."-Richard L. Gorsuch, PsycCRITIQUES, July 2015
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Therapeutic Process 1. Preview of Concept: A Point of Departure 2. The Introduction Stage: Establishing Contact 3. The Introduction Stage: Establishing Conditions 4. Engagement: The Clinical Data 5. Engagement: Some Useful Rules 6. From Insight to Action 7. Client Actions 8. Additional Client Actions Part II: The Nature of the Problem 9. Linking Psychotherapy to Pathology 10. The Nature of Normality 11. The Nature of Pathology Postcript Appendix Bibliography Index
