Interpretive and supportive psychotherapies : matching therapy and patient personality / William E. Piper ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Piper, William E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Supportive psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy--Differential therapeutics.

Psychotherapy.

Personality assessment.

Psychoanalytic interpretation.

Brief psychotherapy.

Insight in psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

x, 316 pages ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2002.

Contents:

Part I. The Development of Dynamic Short-Term Therapies 11

1. Defining Dynamically Oriented, Short-Term Interpretive Psychotherapy and Determining Good Candidates 13

2. Defining Dynamically Oriented Supportive Psychotherapy and Determining Good Candidates 33

3. Interpretive and Supportive Dimensions of Psychotherapy 49

Part II. Empirical Findings 59

4. Optimal Matching of Patients and Short-Term Psychotherapies 61

5. Quality of Object Relations and Psychological Mindedness: Predictive Patient Characteristics in Time-Limited Therapies 77

6. Interaction of Interpretive and Supportive Forms of Psychotherapy and Patient Personality Variables 91

7. Determining the Role Gender Plays as a Patient Aptitude for Therapy 121

8. Relationships Among Therapy Process, Outcome, and Dropping Out 133

Part III. Case Studies: Matching Patients and Therapies 151

9. Clinical Illustrations of Dropping Out From Interpretive Psychotherapy: The Importance of Flexibility 153

10. Relationships Between Patient Personality Variables and the Process of Psychotherapy: Clinical Illustrations of Successful and Unsuccessful Cases 173

Part IV. Manuals and Monitoring Scales 207

11. Therapy Manuals for Interpretive and Supportive Forms of Psychotherapy 209

12. Use of the Interpretive and Supportive Technique Scale 221

13. Themes and Future Directions 235

Appendix I. Manual for Time-Limited, Short-Term Interpretive Individual Therapy 249

Appendix II. Manual for Time-Limited, Short-Term Supportive Individual Therapy 259

Appendix III. Rater Manual for the Interpretive and Supportive Technique Scale 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and indexes.

ISBN:

1557988315

OCLC:

46936156