The value of psychotherapy : the talking cure in an age of clinical science / Robert L. Woolfolk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolfolk, Robert L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Behavior therapy.

Mental health counseling.

Psychotherapist and patient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : The Guilford Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Psychotherapy as a discipline is very much in flux. From a seasoned scholar, clinician, and teacher, this engaging book offers a thoughtful and current analysis of where the field is now and where it may be headed. Robert L. Woolfolk illustrates how the growing medicalization of mental health care--in particular, the attempt to fit psychotherapy to the templates of evidence-based medicine--have challenged psychotherapists to reaffirm the value of their work. The book explores ways in which certain kinds of efforts to endow ""the talking cure"" with greater scientific legitimacy can be problema

Contents:

Cover; Half Title Page; Also from Robert L. Woolfolk; Title Page; Copyright; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1. Crisis; The Rise of Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy in Decline; The Aims of This Book; 2. Ancient Roots and Modern Advances: Our Proud Heritage; The Standard Narrative; The Narrative of Humility; Ancient Roots; Normal Science for a While?; 3. Civil Wars: The Rise of Behavior Therapy and Biomedical Psychiatry; The Behaviorist Attack on Psychoanalysis; The Advent of Meta-Analysis; Critiquing Behavior Therapy; Randomized Controlled Trials versus Meta-Analyses

The Triumph of Biomedical Psychiatry4. Some Sophistries of Cognition and Biomedicine; CBT and the RCT; Cognition Rules, and Behaviorism Is Temporarily Eclipsed; Challenges to Cognitive Therapy: Efficacy and Mechanisms of Change; The "Third-Wave" Approach; The Rise and Fall of Second-Generation Antidepressants: A Cautionary Tale for the EST Move ment; The Inherently Problematic Nature of Research in Psychology; Neuroscience to the Rescue?; 5. In Search of Psychotherapy Expertise; Do Training and Experience Confer Expertise?; The Difficulties in Demonstrating Psychotherapy Expertise

Are Some Therapists Better Than Others?Different Perspectives on Expertise; Expertise: The American Psychological Association View; The Therapeutic Relationship (Alliance) versus Techniques of Treatment; Achieving Professional Excellence: Some Theoretical Perspectives; Summing Up; 6. Psychotherapy as a Humanism; Humanism and Humanistic Psychology; Hermeneutics; 7. Adverse Effects: Cautionary Tales of Harmful Therapies; Recovered Memories and Various Injustices; Attachment Therapy (e.g., Rebirthing); Sexual Reorientation Therapy; Psychotherapy, Society, and the Forces of Contemporary Culture

8. Prospects for ResurgenceSome Good News for Psychotherapy; A Psychotherapy Resurgence?; Making Room for Art, Science, and Pedagogy in Psychotherapy; Coda; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4625-2194-0