Psychotherapy and the Interminable Patient

1. Auflage 1986
ISBN: 978-0-86656-635-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Gewicht: 386 g

Experts discuss the issues psychotherapists face in the treatment of long-term patients, including separation and autonomy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stern, E. Mark

Travers, Jerome A.

Travers, Phd, Jerome

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Interminableness in Psychotherapy: Propositions and Prefaces Introduction: Therapy Helps But It Doesn’t Cure: A Humbled Look at Long-Term Treatment The Wolf-Man: A Sad and Interminable Tale When Is Enough Enough: Issues of Interminability Psychotherapy: Without Beginning, Without End “Therapy Is My Hobby”: Pseudointimacy and the Interminable Patient How They Cling Like Shadows: Object Relations and the Difficult Patient Patients for Life: The Case for Devotion Dependency and Truth The Interminable Refusal to Be a Patient and the Equally Interminable Opposition to End the Non-Treatment Relationship Termination: A Never-Ending Process The Psychotherapist as the Interminable Patient Productive Psychotherapy With the Interminable Patient The Resolution of a Paranoid Episode in the First Year of a Lengthy Treatment The Interminable Patient and the Terminable Therapist Coping With the Interminable Patient: Eight Suggestions for Therapists