Psychotherapy and the promiscuous patient / E. Mark Stern, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stern, E. Mark, 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Promiscuity--Psychological aspects.

Promiscuity.

Promiscuity--Treatment.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Learn effective strategies for therapy with promiscuous patients from this in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of promiscuity in the lives and backgrounds of patients seeking psychotherapy. This unique book features insights about the pitfalls of patients who cannot bear commitment to any one person, or who jeopardize their commitments with a need to spark their lives with promiscuity. Psychotherapy and the Promiscuous Patient teaches psychotherapists to respond to their patients'promiscuous behavior as a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself. A realm of aspects of promiscu

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; More Than a Romp (A Preface); Assessment of Promiscuous Behavior; Adult Promiscuity Following Childhood Sexual Abuse: An Introduction; Addiction or Promiscuity?; The Concept of Promiscuity: A Self Psychology Perspective; Case History; Discussion; Hypersexuality as a Disorder of the Self; Hypersexuality and the Structure of the Self; First Clinical Example; Second Clinical Example; Conclusion; "Psychopathological Promiscuity" and "Refillding" in the Quest for Sexual Love: Recapitulations of Incest Fantasy and Narcissism

The Struggle Through Incestuous FantasyUnconscious Selectivity in " Refinding" and the Narcissistic Functions of Pathological Promiscuity; The Bubble; Background; Clinical Explanations (Pattern Making); Ralph: A Mirror of Our Time; Introducing Confusion to Create Change; The Story; Knowing is No-ing; Confusion Precedes Creation; Examining the Interaction; Career Promiscuity: Patients Who Cannot Commit to a Career; Description of the Problem; Theoretical Understanding of the Problem; Theory of the Therapy; Clinical Illustrations; The Personal Valuation of Promiscuity: A Method of Investigation

Valuation Theory: Organizing One's SelfStructure of the Self-Confrontation Method; A Case Study: Filling the Vacuum; Some Features of the Self-Confrontation Method; AIDS and the Client " In the Fast Lane" : Narrative Construction and Reconstruction; Reconstructive Therapy; The Promiscuous Client; Narrative Reconstruction by This Client; Reconstructive Therapy and Other Therapeutic Approaches; Promiscuity, Psychotherapy, and Strong Laughter; Methodology; Results and Discussion; Conclusions; The Promiscuity of Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy's Purpose

Personal and Interpersonal Aspects of Therapeutic DiscoursesA Promiscuity of Psychotherapy Practice; Conclusion: The Therapist's Broad Repertoire

Notes:

"Also been published as the Psychotherapy patient, volume 8, number 1/2 1992"--T.p. verso.

First published 1992 by the Haworth Press.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-76510-9

1-56024-317-1

1-315-80129-9

1-317-76511-7

9781315801292

OCLC:

882250392