Interpersonal reconstructive therapy : promoting change in nonresponders / Lorna Smith Benjamin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benjamin, Lorna Smith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality disorders--Treatment.

Personality disorders.

Psychotherapy.

Impasse (Psychotherapy).

Resistance (Psychoanalysis).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For individuals with chronic, complex problems that include multiple Axis I disorders comorbid with personality disorders, the barriers to change are significant. This book presents a powerful therapeutic approach that integrates psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, client-centered, and other techniques to empower patients to overcome these barriers by fostering change in personality. Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy (IRT) is grounded in an innovative case formulation method that systematically links symptoms to maladaptive patterns in attachment relationships. IRT offers a step-by-st

Contents:

Introduction and overview

Case formulation

Choosing interventions

Structural analysis of social behavior: the clarifying lens

Step 1 : Collaboration

Step 2 : Learning about patterns, where they are from, and what they are for

Step 3 : Blocking maladaptive patterns

Step 4 : Enabling the will to change

Step 5 : Learning new patterns

Interpersonal reconstructive therapy in clinical and research.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-363) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-22821-4

9786611228217

1-59385-936-8

OCLC:

213468883