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Book SynopsisPresents the work of 12 teams of scholars and clinicians, each expert in a different therapeutic context or theoretical approach, to describe clinical challenges that resonate with readers' own experiences. The authors use case studies to describe clinical examples of rupture and provide strategies therapists can integrate into their work.
Trade ReviewWe all experience ruptures in our work with clients and need help figuring out how to repair them. The contributors to this well-written book provide evidence-based clinical wisdom to help us all manage these messy, “wicked,” interpersonal events. Must reading for therapists at all levels of experience.
-- Clara E. Hill, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States
All psychotherapists experience alliance ruptures, and we all want more skills to help us repair them. This volume can help. Edited by the leading researchers and thinkers on the topic, it offers accounts of alliance rupture and repair from the point of view of multiple psychotherapy modalities, along with vivid transcripts of clinical examples that bring the material to life.
-- Jacqueline B. Persons, PhD, Oakland Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center, Oakland, CA; Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
The editors of this book provide a basic lexicon of terms about how to observe complex clinical interactions and react in the present moment. Authors from different schools of therapy use the same language, which allows the editors to highlight common factors in a concluding chapter. The excellent result will be an illuminating experience that will be helpful for clinicians. -- Mardi Horowitz, MD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States; author of Understanding Psychotherapy Change
Ruptures in the therapeutic alliance are common in all psychotherapies. This book provides informative examples of ruptures and highly detailed methods of rupture repair in many different forms of psychotherapy.
-- Arnold Winston, MD, Professor Emeritus, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System and Chairman Emeritus, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, United States; Professor & Associate Chairman, St. George’s School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies
A treasure chest of pantheoretical guidance and effective skills on identifying alliance ruptures and repairing them. The editors’ groundbreaking research has shown practitioners of all theoretical persuasions how to acknowledge ruptures, create a new relational experience, and demonstrably improve psychotherapy outcomes. Not a book—or a method—to be missed! -- John C. Norcross, PhD, ABPP, Distinguished Professor & Chair of Psychology, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, United States; coauthor of Personalizing Psychotherapy; coauthor of Psychotherapy Relationships That Work
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Rupture in a Wicked and Wonderful World
J. Christopher Muran, Catherine F. Eubanks, & Lisa Wallner Samstag
1. Antioppressive Approaches to Alliance Rupture and Repair: A Critical–Cultural–Relational Model of Rupture Resolution
Doris F. Chang, Maryam Omidi, & Jordan J. Dunn
2. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Group Psychotherapy
Giorgio A. Tasca & Cheri Marmarosh
3. A Close Look at the Complex Rupture and Repair Process in Family Therapy
Myrna L. Friedlander & Valentín Escudero
4. Therapist–Adolescent Therapeutic Ruptures in Attachment-Based Family Therapy
Sophie Cassell & Guy Diamond
5. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Tara Impala, Annika Okamoto, & Nikolaos Kazantzis
6. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Tali Boritz, Sonya Varma, Anne Sonley, & Shelley F. McMain
7. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Robyn D. Walser & Manuela O’Connell
8. Relational Dialogue in Emotion Focused Therapy: Process Analysis and Comparison With the Alliance-Focused Training Model
James Macdonald, Robert Elliott, & Ana Bela Couto
9. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Allan Abbass & Joel M. Town
10. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Mentalization-Based Therapy
Peter Fonagy, Chloe Campbell, & Patrick Luyten
11. Expanding the Rupture Resolution Paradigm: An Integrative Perspective
Sasha Rudenstine, Paul L. Wachtel,Talia Schulder, & Benjamin Bernstein
Conclusion: Don’t Be Afraid to Get Messy:Points of Convergence in Rupture and Repair
Catherine F. Eubanks, Lisa Wallner Samstag, & J. Christopher Muran
