The Mind in Therapy : Cognitive Science for Practice

ISBN-13: 9780805856750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 440 str.

Katherine D. Arbuthnott; Dennis W. Arbuthnott; Valerie A. Thompson

Opis

Cognitive processes are the raw materials of psychotherapy & recent research has shed new illumination on their operation. Richly illustrated with case material, this book is a practical guide to what is most relevant and important for therapists to

Recenzje

"The book is engagingly written, and this is a major achievement considering that the subject matter....The authors have selectively edited these two huge fields down into their critical elements, and the result is immediately accessible. This book will be of greatest interest to practicing therapists and to those in psychotherapeutic training who wish to improve their understanding of cognitive science....very useful to cognitive scientists who are interested in learning about the ways in which their basic science finding can be used in applied settings...may serve to generate hypotheses for those who conduct clinical and cognitive research."
—PsycCRITIQUES

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction. Problem Solving: The Structure of Psychotherapy. Memory Retrieval Cues and Priming. Autobiographical Memory: The Stories and Scenes of Our Lives. Autobiographical Memory Errors. Prospective Memory and Psychotherapeutic Homework. Attention: The Eye of the Mental Hurricane. Category Judgment. Decision Making: Gathering and Evaluating Evidence. Reasoning: Evaluating Conclusions and Determining Cause. Counterfactual Thinking: If Only and What If. Metacognition: What You Know About How You Think. Emotion and Cognition: Mutual Influences. Catharsis or Containment: Inhibition and Health. Psychodynamic Principles as Cognitive Mechanisms. Prospect and Review: Cognition Throughout the Process of Therapy.

O autorze

Katherine D. Arbuthnott, Dennis W. Arbuthnott, Valerie A. Thompson