Description The reader is about to encounter a fresh, challenging, and indeed bold treatise on not only the current status of psychotherapy, but also the future of psychotherapy .
You\'re in for a rich amalgam of updated biopsychosocially based Clinical theory that integrates the biological, psychological, and cultural realms; overarching summaries of research across a number of sciences and Clinical disciplines; wide-ranging reviews of individual, couples, group, and family psychotherapy; and ultimately, I think, an intellectually stimulating and compelling argument for a Unifying paradigm for psychotherapy.
What does bringing these perspectives together accomplish? In resolution of conflicts, a summa.
The cocktail party does bring together a broad range of differing perspectives.
In this goal, Unifying Psychotherapy does succeed. gather together core ideas from a wide range of therapy researchers.
It is highly recommended."--Psyc CRITIQUES "I very much hope that Magnavita and Anchin\'s book can influence the current psychotherapy research and treatment...
Thoughtful clinicians at any stage of their careers will find that reading this book results in rethinking their Clinical work with deeper engagement and surprising new insights.
The central contribution is that they are telling us how to organize and manage all the information available, and they are trying to construct systematic conceptual tools to guide us...
Magnavita and Anchin are telling us to think about the whole person... the scholarship is succinct but well supported by broad and up-to-date citations...
They] offer conceptual tools to inform a truly multiparadigmatic approach...
Schore, Ph D UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Magnavita and Anchin provide an excellent review of contemporary research to demonstrate that each of these domains influences both the development of personality (or pathology) and the response to treatment... -from the Introduction by Allan N.
Description The reader is about to encounter a fresh, challenging, and indeed bold treatise on not only the current status of psychotherapy, but also the future of psychotherapy .
You\'re in for a rich amalgam of updated biopsychosocially based Clinical theory that integrates the biological, psychological, and cultural realms; overarching summaries of research across a number of sciences and Clinical disciplines; wide-ranging reviews of individual, couples, group, and family psychotherapy; and ultimately, I think, an intellectually stimulating and compelling argument for a Unifying paradigm for psychotherapy
