Treating Affect Phobia

This hands-on manual teaches the nuts and bolts of practising short-term dynamic psychotherapy, the research-supported model first presented in "Changing Character", Leigh McCullough's foundational text. Reflecting the ongoing evolution of the approach, the manual emphasizes "affect phobia", or conflict about feelings. It shows how such proven behavioural techniques as systemic desensitization can be applied effectively within a psychodynamic framework, and offers clear guidelines for when and how to intervene. Demonstrated are procedures for assessing patients, formulating core conflicts and restructuring defences, affects and relationship to the self and others. Featuring a wealth of case examples, the book also includes many write-in exercises to help therapists build and practise key skills. It is an invaluable clinical resource and an ideal tool for teaching and training.

ISBN 1572308109   Pages 310 ISBN13 9781572308107 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Guilford Publications   Weight (grammes) 871 Imprint Guilford Publications   Published in New York Format Hardback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 31 Dec 2002   Width (mm) 153 Library of Congress 02155163   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 616.852706   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction		1
Pt. I		Theory, Evaluation, and Formulation
Ch. 1		Affect and Affect Phobia in Short-Term Treatment		13
Ch. 2		Affect Phobia, Psychodynamic Conflict, and Malan's Two Triangles		35
Ch. 3		Assessment and Selection of Treatment for the Patient		55
Ch. 4		How to Formulate a Core Psychodynamic Conflict: Spotting Affect Phobias		81
Pt. II		Defense and Affect Restructuring
Ch. 5		Defense Restructuring, Section 1: Defense Recognition		113
Ch. 6		Defense Restructuring, Section 2: Defense Relinquishing		138
Ch. 7		Affect Restructuring, Section 1: Affect Experiencing		167
Ch. 8		Affect Restructuring, Section 2: Affect Expression		207
Pt. III		Self- and Other-Restructuring
Ch. 9		Self-Restructuring: Building Compassion and Care for Self		237
Ch. 10		Other-Restructuring: Building Adaptive Inner Images of Others		265
Pt. IV		Diagnostic Considerations and Termination
Ch. 11		Treating Specific Diagnoses: The Relationship between DSM Diagnoses and Affect Phobias		293
Ch. 12		Termination		308
		App.: Answers to Exercises		323
		References		353
		Index		357

'This is the training manual that teachers and practitioners of short-term dynamic therapy have been eagerly anticipating. It is the first psychodynamically oriented volume that expertly guides the novice through emotion-focused, time-sensitive psychotherapy in an explicit, step-by-step fashion. The manual is enhanced by very useful exercises that allow therapists to try out their interventions and compare them to the authors' expert responses. This volume represents a new and exciting development in the teaching, learning, and practice of psychodynamic/integrative therapy in general, and brief psychotherapy in particular.' - Stanley B. Messer, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University 'This carefully reasoned and researched manual starts with the simple assumption that many people are afraid of their own emotions, offers easy ways to identify whatever is being expressed or even suppressed, and explains clearly the authors' suggestions for treatment.' - Donald L. Nathanson, MD, The Silvan S. Tomkins Institute and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Jefferson Medical College 'This work is an extraordinary synthesis of depth and practicality. It is as clear, concrete, and richly exampled a treatment manual as I have seen, yet it depicts not a simple or mechanistic therapy but one that goes to the very heart of human feeling and experience. Incorporating a profoundly integrative vision, Treating Affect Phobia will be of great value not only to psychodynamically oriented therapists but to anyone in the field who appreciates the accumulating evidence for the central role of affect - and fear of affect - in our lives.' - Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, City College and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York

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