Inside the Session: What Really Happens in Psychotherapy - Hardcover

Paul L. Wachtel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433809400 ISBN 13: 9781433809408

Publisher: American Psychological Assoc, 2011

Synopsis

Presents full transcripts of three entire sessions, enabling readers to see not just what went right, but where the therapist may have missed a crucial detail or may have intervened at the wrong moment. It provides a rare opportunity to ""look over the shoulder — and into the mind"" of a renowned psychotherapist at work.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, is a distinguished professor in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He did his undergraduate work at Columbia University; received his PhD in clinical psychology from Yale University; and is a graduate of the postdoctoral psychoanalytic training program at New York University, where he is also on the faculty. He is internationally recognized as an innovator in the field of psychotherapy and for his contributions to the application of psychological theory and research to the pressing social problems of our times. A cofounder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Dr. Wachtel is the author of many books on psychotherapy, personality dynamics, and psychologically oriented social criticism, including Action and Insight; The Poverty of Affluence; Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy; Therapeutic Communication; Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World; Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circles Between Blacks and Whites; and, most recently, Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy. A number of his books have been widely described as classics in the field.

About this edition

• Publisher: American Psychological Assoc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1433809400
• ISBN 13: 9781433809408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288