基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. What can be done to the help those persons who consistently do not respond to therapeutic interventions, despite significant suffering and repeated attempts to seek treatment?
Full Description
For individuals with chronic, complex problems that include multiple Axis I disorders comorbid with personality disorders, the barriers to change are significant. This book presents a powerful therapeutic approach that integrates psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, client-centered, and other techniques to empower patients to overcome these barriers by fostering change in personality. Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy (IRT) is grounded in an innovative case formulation method that systematically links symptoms to maladaptive patterns in attachment relationships. IRT offers a step-by-step framework for structuring interventions to promote learning of new, healthier patterns, while blocking problem behaviors and building a strong therapeutic alliance. A new preface in the paperback edition addresses current developments in IRT research and practice.
Contents
1. Introduction and Overview
2. Case Formulation
3. Choosing Interventions
4. Structural Analysis of Social Behavior: The Clarifying Lens
5. Step 1: Collaboration
6. Step 2: Learning about Patterns, Where They Are From, and What They Are For
7. Step 3: Blocking Maladaptive Patterns
8. Step 4: Enabling the Will to Change
9. Step 5: Learning New Patterns
10. Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy in Clinical and Research Contexts
