Evocativeness : moving and persuasive interventions in psychotherapy / Stephen A. Appelbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appelbaum, Stephen A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy--Philosophy.

Psychotherapy--Case studies.

Evocation.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Northvale, NJ : Jason Aronson, [2000]

Summary:

Some interventions by psychotherapists are good-moving, persuasive, and memorable; others are bad-dull, pedestrian, and inconsequential. In this book, Dr. Appelbaum introduces the concept of evocativeness, and shows how feelings and ideas can be powerfully communicated and experienced in the session by both patient and therapist opening up a new realm of vividness, intimacy, and understanding. Creative, well-written, and enriched with abundant clinical material that beautifully presents this important and intangible ingredient in therapeutic work, this book will inform and delight its professional readers.

Contents:

I. Something Uncontrolled Is Going On Here

1. Introducing a New Old Friend 3

2. The Eternal Duality 23

3. Struggles with the Desired 33

4. Footlights and Footnotes: Art and Psychotherapy 43

5. The Evocateur 55

6. Learning Evocativeness 71

II. The Clinical Crucible

7. The Clinician as Critic 81

8. Freud's Analytic Terrain 87

9. At Work with Evocativeness

Case Examples 119

Flower Show 122

Wild Analysis 125

Real Estate 129

Impulse Buying 135

Family Matters 137

Production and Reproduction 139

An Opening 143

Are You Really There? 146

The Fight against Fighting 150

Love Terror 155

The Past Not Taken 158

Working the Vineyard 162

The Prisoners 167

Collusion 170

The Missing Mother 176

An Obstacle Course 180

Up the Down Escalator 187

The Reluctant Eagle Scout 192

At War with the Self 197

Cold Fire 204

Stymied, Stumped, Stuck 211

In My Solitude 222

Who Is at the Controls? 233

Winning the Battle, Losing the War 247

Electronic Humanism 265

Psychosexual Modes 311.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-319) and index.

ISBN:

0765702460

OCLC:

43599217