Fundamentals of Adaptive Psychotherapy and Counselling
It has taken 30 years of study and 42 prior books to build a new paradigm of psychoanalysis and a new view of the emotion-processing mind. The organizing concept is the centrality of emotional adaptations, encoded communications, and unconscious wisdom and morality. In this brave new outer directed inner world, meeting the challenges of death and the effects of death anxiety empower emotional life and the therapy of its maladaptations.
This book is addressed to all manner of students and practitioners of psychotherapy and counseling . It offers a compendium of deep psychological and interpersonal insights and precepts that can serve as a solid foundation for all of the diverse efforts at emotional healing that are in vogue today. While its bias is psychodynamic, the knowledge and principles of technique that will be espoused have a bearing on, and can serve to illuminate, the practice of all present-day treatment modalities regardless of their theoretical underpinnings.
The broad applicability of this book stems from its grounding in explorations of emotional realms where humans share a set of universal attributes that are inherent to the emotion-processing mind that marks us as members of the hominid species (Slavin & Kriegman, 1992, Badcock, 1994, Langs, 1996). Regardless of whether they are addressed by a given psychotherapist, these psycho-biological features of the human mind are operative at all times and they exert many powerful effects on emotional life and the therapeutic process.
I am recommending this book to you because I deeply believe that it will expand your emotional horizons in ways that no other approach to the human mind is able to do.
To paraphrase Gregory Bateson, this book is a difference that can make a difference.
Here are the details:
Title: Fundamentals of Adaptive Psychotherapy and Counselling
Author: Robert Langs
Publisher: London: Palgrave Macmillan (2003)
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Robert Langs, M.D., Rj3321@aol.com
Overview
Part I. Basic Concepts
Chapter One. Two Modes of Psychotherapy and Counseling
Chapter Two. Two Modes of communication
Chapter Three. Models of the Mind
Chapter Four. The Conscious System
Chapter Five. The Deep Unconscious System
Chapter Six. Ground Rules and Boundaries
Chapter Seven. Death Anxiety and the Evolution of the Mind
Part II. Clinical Technique
Chapter Eight. Indicators: Symptoms and Resistances
Chapter Nine. Triggers and Themes
Chapter Ten. Three Classes of Intervention
Chapter Eleven. Trigger Decoded Interpretations
Chapter Twelve: The Validating Process
Chapter Thirteen. The First Session
Chapter Fourteen. An Unnatural Profession
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