The symptom-context method : symptoms as opportunities in psychotherapy / [edited by] Lester Luborsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luborsky, Lester, 1920-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology, Pathological.

Symptoms.

Psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy--methods.

Mental Disorders--diagnosis.

Mental Disorders--therapy.

Psychophysiologic Disorders--diagnosis.

Psychophysiologic Disorders--therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Psychotherapy--methods.

Mental Disorders--diagnosis.

Mental Disorders--therapy.

Psychophysiologic Disorders--diagnosis.

Psychophysiologic Disorders--therapy.

Physical Description:

xi, 422 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [1996]

Summary:

From a leading pioneer in short-term psychotherapy and psychotherapy research comes this innovative examination of a long-neglected topic - symptom formation in the context of clinical practice. Symptoms, psychological and psychosomatic, are what motivate many patients to come to treatment, yet this is the first and only collection and analysis of recurrent symptoms in psychotherapy; it leads to a new theory of the necessary conditions for symptom formation. Those who have examined symptom conditions have typically done so retrospectively through patient recall, or, less frequently, through behavioral recordings made by the patient near the time the symptom occurs. Both of these methods make interpretations of symptom onset conditions questionable because of the problem of memory distortion and subjectivity. In this volume, Dr. Luborsky describes the symptom-context method of gathering data as symptoms arise in vivo in the psychotherapy session. Transcripts of sessions are examined in light of each patient's symptom versus nonsymptom (control) segments, using controlled clinical ratings, scoring methods (both psychological and physiological), and background context.

Contents:

Acknowledgments: Sources of Support and Supportiveness

Part I. Guide to the Symptom-Context Method

Chapter 1. The Symptom-Context Method: Its Origins and Uses and Why Clinicians and Researchers Need It / Lester Luborsky

Chapter 2. A Guide to the Symptom-Context Method / Lester Luborsky

Part II. The Onset Conditions for Psychological Symptoms

Chapter 3. The Context for Momentary Forgetting / Lester Luborsky, Jim Mintz

Chapter 4. The Context for Momentary Forgetting: Studies of Groups of Patients / Lester Luborsky, Harold Sackeim, Paul Crits-Christoph

Chapter 5. The Context for Sudden Depressive Mood Shifts / Lester Luborsky, Barton Singer, John Hartke, Louis Diguer, Paul Crits-Christoph, Christopher Peterson

Chapter 6. Stalking the Elusive Contexts of a Phobia With a Modified Symptom-Context Method / Lester Luborsky, Louis Diguer, Suzanne Johnson, David A. Seligman, Scott Friedman, Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay

Part III. The Onset Conditions for Psychosomatic Symptoms

Chapter 7. The Context for Stomach Ulcer Pains / Lester Luborsky

Chapter 8. The Context for Migraine-Like Headaches / Lester Luborsky, Arthur Auerbach, A. Thomas McLellan

Chapter 9. The Context for Absence Epilepsy Episodes (Petit Mal) / Lester Luborsky, John P. Docherty, Louis A. Gottschalk, Thomas C. Todd, Peter N. Knapp, Allan F. Mirsky, Andrea Wagner, Armand Siegel, Stuart Rosenthal

Chapter 10. The Context for Premature Ventricular Contractions of the Heart / John P. Docherty, Hoyle Leigh, Paul David, Lester Luborsky, Louis Diguer, Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay, Scott Friedman, Suzanne Johnson, Louis A. Gottschalk

Part IV. The Onset Conditions for Nonsymptomatic Behaviors

Chapter 11. Laughing Matters in Psychotherapy: How to Read Their Context / Lester Luborsky, Louis Diguer, Suzanne Johnson, David A. Seligman, Kelly Schmidt, Scott Friedman, Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay

Chapter 12. A Symptom-Context Study of Family Therapy: What Makes Suzie Cry? / Paul Crits-Christoph, Lester Luborsky, Ellen Gay, Thomas C. Todd, Jacques P. Barber, Ellen Luborsky

Chapter 13. The Context for Children's Touching of Treasured Objects: Bunnies, Bears, and Blankets / Ellen Gay

Chapter 14. The Context for Touching the Mouth Area During Psychoanalytic Sessions / Louis A. Gottschalk

Part V. Clinical Uses, Theories, and a New Theory of the Conditions for Symptom Formation

Chapter 15. A Guide to Therapeutic Uses of Symptom-Context Methods / Lester Luborsky

Chapter 16. Classical Theories of Symptom Formation: Freud, Engel and Schmale, Goldstein, Angyal, and Seligman / Lester Luborsky, Gerald Aronson

Chapter 17. Looking Ahead to a New Symptom-Context Theory of How Psychological and Psychosomatic Symptoms Form / Lester Luborsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1557983542

OCLC:

34115366