The initial psychotherapy interview : a gay man seeks treatment / editied by Charles Silverstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silverstein, Charles.

Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Elsevier insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Psychological aspects.

Homosexuality.

Psychoanalysis and homosexuality.

Psychotherapy.

Interview, Psychological--methods.

Psychotherapy--methods.

HIV Infections--psychology.

Homosexuality, Male--psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Interview, Psychological--methods.

Psychotherapy--methods.

HIV Infections--psychology.

Homosexuality, Male--psychology.

Physical Description:

xx, 321 pages : illustrations, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Burlington, MA : Elsevier, [2011]

Summary:

For students in training to be psychotherapists, Silverstein, a psychologist who specializes in homosexuality, assembles US psychologists who present 15 chapters that examine interactions during Silverstein's initial interview with a 30-year-old gay man who seeks therapy after the death of his older brother, who was also gay, with the aim of promoting more humane interaction in psychotherapy. After a transcript of the interview, the contributors comment on aspects of the process from different therapeutic approaches. They address failures, such as over-identification and punishing the client, rescue fantasies, and inappropriate self-disclosure, and discuss counter-transference, psychoanalytic and attachment theories, cognitive-behavior and family systems therapies, psychodrama, sexual abuse, motivational interviewing, gay-affirmative psychotherapy, intake procedures in an institutional setting, death and bereavement, treatment progression, gender, sexual orientation, and the relationship between sex, drug use, and AIDS. There is no index. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1. Introduction / Charles Silverstein

2. Scott's Interview (transcript) / Charles Silverstein

3. The initial psychotherapy interview / Charles Silverstein

4. Variations on gender and orientation in Scott's first interview / Margaret Nichols

5. Institutional aspects of the initial interview / Ronald E. Hellman

6. Death and bereavement / Michael C. Singer

7. An attachment perspective on the first interview (accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy) / Gil Tunnell

8. Understanding self-report of sexual abuse in an initial clinical interview / John C. Gonsiorek

9. Sex, drugs, and HIV (clinical issues and assessment strategies) / Peter S. Theodore

10. Motivational interviewing for health behavior problems / Donald Bux

11. Cognitive-behavioral therapy / DeMond M. Grant and LaRicka R. Wingate

12. Family systems (the relational contexts of individual symptoms) / Corinne Datchi-Phillips

13. Listening as a psychoanalyst / Ralph Roughton

14. Psychodrama (in searach of meaning through action) / Jacob Gershoni

15. Gay-affirmative psychotheraphy in real time (a first interview) / Armand R. Cerbone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0123851467

9780123851468

OCLC:

670484634

Publisher Number:

99947446464