The Therapeutic Alliance in Brief Psychotherapy

A combination of social and economic factors have led to the current surge of interest in brief psychotherapy. But how do the time limitations affect the central relationship between therapist and client? How do therapist and client determine the focus of their work together? How does the therapist deal with ruptures in the working alliance and the pressure of termination issues? This is the first book to systematically examine the role of the therapeutic alliance in short-term psychotherapy. The distinguished contributors represent a variety of approaches: psychoanalytic and psychodynamic; relational; behavioural/functional analytic; cognitive; and humanistic/experiential. Therapy with couples and families as well as with individuals is discussed. The contribiutors each address the same questions regarding the alliance, which helps the reader better understand the similarities and differences between approaches. This book explores both theory and technique and should interest clinicians of all orientations.

ISBN 1557985081   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781557985088 (What's this?)   Pages 248 Publisher American Psychological Association   Volumes 1 Imprint American Psychological Association   Weight (grammes) 726 Format Hardback   Published in Washington DC Publication date 30 Jun 1998   Height (mm) 230 Non-book description xii, 238 p. ;   Width (mm) 184 Library of Congress RC489.T66   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 616.8914   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		List of Contributors
		Preface
1		Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance in Brief Psychotherapy: An Introduction by J. Christopher Muran and Jeremy D. Safran		3
2		The Therapeutic Alliance in Brief Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Drive-Conflict Perspective by Harold Been and Arnold Winston		15
3		The Therapeutic Alliance in the Relational Models of Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy by Jeffrey L. Binder		39
4		Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, the Therapeutic Alliance, and Brief Psychotherapy by Barbara S. Kohlenberg and Elizabeth A. Yeater and Robert J. Kohlenberg		63
5		The Therapeutic Relationship and Alliance in Short-Term Cognitive Therapy by Cory F. Newman		95
6		The Therapeutic Alliance in Short-Term Humanistic and Experiential Therapies by Jeanne C. Watson and Leslie S. Greenberg		123
7		The Therapeutic Alliance in Brief Strategic Therapy by James C. Coyne and Carolyn M. Pepper		147
8		Perspectives on the Therapeutic Alliance in Brief Couples and Family Therapy by Douglas S. Rait		171
9		The Alliance in Time-Limited Group Psychotherapy by K. Roy MacKenzie		193
10		The Therapeutic Alliance in Brief Psychotherapy: General Principles by Jeremy D. Safran and J. Christopher Muran		217
		Index		231
		About the Editors		237

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