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Book SynopsisThis hands-on manual from Leigh McCullough and associates teaches the nuts and bolts of practicing short-term dynamic psychotherapy, the research-supported model first presented in Changing Character, McCullough's foundational text. Reflecting the ongoing evolution of the approach, the manual emphasizes affect phobia, or conflict about feelings. It shows how such proven behavioral techniques as systemic desensitization can be applied effectively within a psychodynamic framework, and offers clear guidelines for when and how to intervene. Demonstrated are procedures for assessing patients, formulating core conflicts, and restructuring defenses, affects, and relationship to the self and others. In an easy-to-use, large-size format, the book features a wealth of case examples and write-in exercises for building key clinical skills. The companion website (www.affectphobiatherapy.com) offers useful supplemental resources, including Psychotherapy Assessment Checklist (PAC) forms and instructions.
Trade ReviewThis work is an extraordinary synthesis of depth and practicality. It is as clear, concrete, and richly exampled a treatment manual as I have seen, yet it depicts not a simple or mechanistic therapy but one that goes to the very heart of human feeling and experience. Incorporating a profoundly integrative vision, Treating Affect Phobia will be of great value not only to psychodynamically oriented therapists but to anyone in the field who appreciates the accumulating evidence for the central role of affect--and fear of affect--in our lives.--Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, City College and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York
This is the training manual that teachers and practitioners of short-term dynamic therapy have been eagerly anticipating. It is the first psychodynamically oriented volume that expertly guides the novice through emotion-focused, time-sensitive psychotherapy in an explicit, step-by-step fashion. The manual is enhanced by very useful exercises that allow therapists to try out their interventions and compare them to the authors' expert responses. This volume represents a new and exciting development in the teaching, learning, and practice of psychodynamic/integrative therapy in general, and brief psychotherapy in particular.--Stanley B. Messer, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University
This is a treatment manual with a number of fabulous characteristics: it takes the astute clinical observations of psychodynamic therapists and sets them within modern principles of learning and behavioral change; it draws from the best of the behavior therapy treatments for phobias; it is beautifully clear and easy to follow; and it has comprehensive learning exercises at the end of each chapter to help the clinician actually learn how to apply the treatment in clinical practice. I plan to have my students read it.--Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
This carefully reasoned and researched manual starts with the simple assumption that many people are afraid of their own emotions, offers easy ways to identify whatever is being expressed or even suppressed, and explains clearly the authors' suggestions for treatment.--Donald L. Nathanson, MD, The Silvan S. Tomkins Institute and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Jefferson Medical College
- This is the training manual that teachers and practitioners of short-term dynamic therapy have been eagerly anticipating. It is the first psychodynamically oriented volume that expertly guides the novice through emotion-focused, time-sensitive psychotherapy in an explicit, step-by-step fashion. The manual is enhanced by very useful exercises that allow therapists to try out their interventions and compare them to the authors' expert responses. This volume represents a new and exciting development in the teaching, learning, and practice of psychodynamic/integrative therapy in general, and brief psychotherapy in particular. -Stanley B. Messer, PhD, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers- --The State University of New Jersey, 1/26/2003
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I. Theory, Evaluation, and Formulation
Chapter 1. Affect and Affect Phobia in Short-Term Treatment
Chapter 2. Affect Phobia, Psychodynamic Conflict, and Malan's Two Triangles
Chapter 3. Assessment and Selection of Treatment for the Patient
Chapter 4. How to Formulate a Core Psychodynamic Conflict: Spotting Affect Phobias
Part II. Defense and Affect Restructuring
Introduction to Part II
Chapter 5. Defense Restructuring Phase I: Defense Recognition
Chapter 6. Defense Restructuring Phase II: Defense Relinquishing
Chapter 7. Affect Restructuring Phase I: Affect Experiencing
Chapter 8. Affect Restructuring Phase II: Affect Expression
Part III. Self- and Other-Restructuring
Introduction to Part III
Chapter 9. Self-Restructuring: Building Compassion and Care for Self
Chapter 10. Other-Restructuring: Building Adaptive Inner Images of Others
Part IV. Diagnostic Considerations and Termination
Chapter 11. Treating Specific Diagnoses: The Relationship between DSM Diagnoses and Affect Phobias
Chapter 12. Termination
Appendix. Answers to Exercises
References
