Unifying psychotherapy : principles, methods, and evidence from clinical science / Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Jack C. Anchin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magnavita, Jeffrey J.

Contributor:

Anchin, Jack C. (Jack Charles), 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--Philosophy.

Psychotherapy.

Clinical psychology--Philosophy.

Clinical psychology.

System theory.

Self-organizing systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unified psychotherapy, considered to be a significant new paradigm in the evolution of psychotherapy, is a multicomponent biopychosocial systems model that draws from all of the major psychotherapeutic paradigms and is grounded in the relational matrix. This book provides a comprehensive examination, analysis, and appraisal of unified psychotherapy with a practice-friendly presentation of its theoretical and evidence-based foundations, principles, and methods. It offers clinicians and students a framework for using unified psychotherapy and includes specific intervention strategies that can be

Contents:

Theory and evidence for unifying psychotherapy

The emergence of a unifying paradigm for psychotherapy

The personality system

The relational matrix©<U+0085>fundamental principles and processes

Unified psychotherapeutics

The mind/brain

Self and other dyads

Triads and family systems

Larger systems

Clinical strategies of unified psychotherapy

Unifying psychotherapeutics-intrapsychic & dyadic levels

Unifying psychotherapeutics-triadic, family, & sociocutural levels

Formulation of unified treatment packages, clinical decision-making in unified therapeutics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8261-9983-6

OCLC:

862048570