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Evidence from
Within, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008
This book squarely addresses the question: does psychotherapy work? When does it work and how well?
It proposes a practical and innovative model of psychological and psychiatric assessment and
treatment. Having read this book, the practitioner will have a set of valuable new techniques for
conducting a results-oriented psychotherapy. The book and the methods it advocates can be used as a
practice guide for any office-based mental health clinician. Emphasized is the therapist's
responsibility to deliver a treatment that is effective and has built-in provisions for independent
monitoring of treatment progress. Apart from psychological assessment and self-report
questionnaires, information about diagnosis and progress comes from a finely-tuned collaboration
between therapist and patient.
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Making Psychotherapy
Work, Psychosocial Press, 2007
So many doubts have been expressed about whether psychotherapy is effective. Yet, people rave
about their therapist: how helpful she has been, how wonderful he is. What accounts for the
difference between therapies that receive accolades, and those that get panned? In this
instructive and provocative book, Dr. Frankel sorts out good therapy from bad, effective from
ineffective. Read more. |
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Hidden Faults,
Psychosocial Press, 2000
Hidden Faults explores ways to resolve stalemate and further progress in psychotherapy.
Disjunctions: the spectrum of breaches in therapy, from subtle to devastating, when therapist and
patient miss and confound each other. Disjunctions may briefly confuse the therapeutic partners,
or even grind the therapy to a halt. Always, they provide unique opportunities for therapist and
patient to understand each other and bring their work to ever more profound levels.
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Intricate Engagements,
Jason Aronson, 1995; Rowman and Littlefield, 2004
Intricate Engagements confronts one of the fundamental challenges of contemporary
psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. At each clinical moment, psychotherapists are flooded with
possibilities. To manage this situation, they often take refuge in preconceived ideas about
psychology and change. Intricate Engagements helps therapists find their way through and
out of this maze. Dr. Frankel shows how to chart a course through the moment-to-moment uncertainty
of the therapeutic situation in a way that maintains the compelling immediacy and often terrifying
intimacy required for two people to influence one another.
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