Exploring Three Approaches to Psychotherapy - Hardcover

Greenberg, Leslie S.; McWilliams, Nancy; Wenzel, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433815214 ISBN 13: 9781433815218

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2013

Synopsis

Exploring Three Approaches to Psychotherapy gives readers in-depth analysis of what occurs in therapy as practiced according to three different orientations: cognitive, emotion-focused, and psychoanalytic.

Leading psychotherapists Leslie S. Greenberg, Nancy McWilliams, and Amy Wenzel explain the theory and principal techniques of their respective models, and specifically how they are applied in the therapy demonstrations shown in the APA DVDs, Three Approaches to Psychotherapy With a Female Client and Three Approaches to Psychotherapy With a Male Client.

This book grants readers access to the authors' insights about how the three approaches work in practice, offering a rare look into the minds of three therapists as they explore and comment on the therapy demonstration sessions.

The book and DVD programmes, used together or independently, soundly illustrate the differences and similarities between the three approaches, and thus between the theoretical schools of which they are representative. Resulting comprehension of the major theoretical systems will serve readers well as they encounter new approaches, be they students of theory, practitioners, or professors of psychotherapy.

About this title

About the Author

Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He is a leading authority on working with emotion in psychotherapy and the developer of emotion-focused therapy. He has, with colleagues, authored the major texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment of individuals and couples, from the original work on emotion in psychotherapy and emotionally focused couples therapy in the 1980s to his more recent books, Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression (2005); Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power (2008); and Emotion-Focused Therapy (2011).

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, is the author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (1994, rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2004), and is associate editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006). She teaches at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Amy Wenzel, PhD, is owner of Wenzel Consulting, LLC, clinical assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, adjunct faculty at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, speakers bureau member for Cross Country Education, and an Affiliate of the Postpartum Stress Center. She is an internationally recognised expert on cognitive therapy and regularly provides in-person workshops, webinars, and intensive supervision. Dr. Wenzel has authored or edited 12 books, including Strategic Decision Making in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2013), Group Cognitive Therapy for Addictions (2012), Anxiety in Childbearing Women: Diagnosis and Treatment (2011), and Cognitive Therapy for Suicidal Patients: Scientific and Clinical Applications (2009). She has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters on diverse topics such as cognitive processes in psychopathology, perinatal distress, suicide prevention, and interpersonal relationships.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1433815214
• ISBN 13: 9781433815218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 221