Philosophically rich and highly practical, this book offers therapists a transtheoretical, transdiagnostic perspective that identifies the process of change that underlies all effective psychotherapy models.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: How does therapy work? -- Problem formation -- Problem resolution -- The therapeutic relationship -- Interventions as relational acts -- Anxiety -- Depression -- Parent-child relationship problems -- Couple therapy -- Substance abuse and dependency -- Self-harming and suicidal clients -- Following the golden thread of second-order change in effective psychotherapy.

While "psychotherapy" has been busily dividing into hundreds of different models, research shows that it doesn't really matter which approach you use. Yet there are some factors, across models, that do matter.

and knowledge, and as a possible way to illuminate change processes in psychotherapy. Today, developmental researchers and neuroscientists increasingly locate keys to psychological health and development in the earliest interactions between mother and infant." "This book, which consists of significant papers by the BCPSG, traces the group's contributions to psychoanalytic topics of note, including; the location of the implicit, the creation of meaning, the moment-by-moment clinical process, and the subjective experience of the therapist. The book also includes new introductions to selected chapters, which provide background on the original intent and reception of each article." --Book Jacket.

Integral Psychotherapy lays out a conceptual framework for understanding and applying the wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches. The unifying model presented here addresses the dynamics of healthy human development, the assessment process, techniques and processes of therapeutic change, and much, much more. Beginning as well as experienced mental health practitioners will find the integral approach to be an exquisitely parsimonious model, one that allows practitioners and researchers to retain their own style and preferences, while simultaneously organizing ideas within a more comprehensive framework for understanding human beings and the psychotherapeutic process.