Principles and Effective Practice
The Talking Cure. Cyclical Psychodynamics I: Vicious Circles. Cyclical Psychodynamics II: The Centrality of Anxiety. Cyclical Psychodynamics III: Insight, the Therapeutic Relationship, and the World Outside. Therapeutic and Countertherapeutic Interpretations. Exploration, Not Interrogation. Building on the Patient's Strengths. Affirmation and Change. Attribution and Suggestion. Reframing, Relabeling, and Paradox. Therapist Self-Disclosure: Prospects and Pitfalls. Achieving Resolution of the Patient's Difficulties: Resistance, Working Through, and Following Through. Ellen F. Wachtel, Postscript: Therapeutic Communication with Couples. References. Index.