Clinical Workbook for Psychotherapists

Langs, Robert

• Preface -- Understanding Unconscious Communication -- Unconscious communication and madness -- How and why messages are encoded -- Decoding disguised messages -- Analysing the therapist’s interventions -- Decoding the material from patients -- Listening and Formulating -- The elements of listening -- Indicators -- Identifying the adaptive contexts -- Adaptive contexts: manifest representations -- Adaptive contexts: derivative representations -- Adaptive contexts: known implications -- Responses to interventions: encoded perceptions -- Responses to interventions: reactions to perceptions -- Some precepts of listening -- Intervening and Validating -- Some precepts of intervening: the nature of interventions -- Silence -- Interpretations and the play-back of selected derivatives -- Managing the ground rules of psychotherapy -- Common errors in intervening -- Appendix: The seven dimensions of the therapeutic interaction