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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814146203321

Autore

Edelstein Michael R.

Titolo

Therapy breakthrough : why some psychotherapies work better than others / / Michael Edelstein, Richard K. Kujoth, David Ramsay Steele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : Open Court, , 2010

ISBN

0-8126-9846-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EdelsteinMichael R

KujothRichard K

SteeleDavid Ramsay

Disciplina

616.89/14

Soggetti

Mental illness - Treatment

Psychotherapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1. What Happened to Psychotherapy?; 2. Therapy Isn't Therapy!; 3. The Old and New Therapies in Action; 4. Where the Old Therapy Came From; 5. Psychoanalysis. . . Testing, Testing; 6. Therapy Before Ellis; 7. The Conquistador with His Pants Down; 8. The Recovered Memory Craze; 9. Your Unconscious Has No Mind of Its Own; 10. Heroes of the Revolution; Postscript; Appendix: Is Psychoanalysis Falsifiable?; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

More people are in psychotherapy than ever before. Yet most of them have no idea of the vast differences between the hundreds of various schools of therapy. Therapy Breakthrough is the first book to clearly explain the theories and practices of the two big camps: Psychodynamic or PD therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral or CB therapy. PD therapists believe that emotional problems are caused by hidden forces in our unconscious minds, forces that cannot be observed directly and that resist being uncovered. CB therapists, by contrast, maintain that the roots of people's emotional and behav