Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies

ISBN-13: 9780881634334 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 196 str.

Joesph D. Lichtenberg

Opis

In Craft and Spirit, Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of exploratory psychotherapy, by which he means the creative skill even artistry that mobilizes the spirit of inquiry in therapist and patient and sustains it over the course of psychotherapy. He expatiates on this craft as it pertains to patients of our time patients who typically bring to therapy backgrounds of insecure attachment and serious concerns about safety and retraumatization. In each of ten chapters, Lichtenberg formulates a different guideline for technique, keyed to the broad domain of exploratory psychotherapies and are accompanied by numerous clinical illustrations. These guidelines seek to foster greater therapist involvement without compromising an openness to psychological exploration. They seek to sensitize therapists to the two interlacing tracks of communication that unfold in treatment: those of verbal exchange and of enactive messages. And they help guide therapist attention among interpenetrating domains of the patient s subjectivity, the therapist s subjectivity, and the intersubjective realm that emerges from their collaborative experience.
Fusing the humanist tradition of therapeutic inquiry with knowledge gained from recent infancy and child research, Lichtenberg develops guidelines suitable to exploratory therapy with patients who communicate not only verbally but also through diverse affect states and altered cognitions. Consistently illuminating on the parallels and disjunctions between caregiver child and therapist patient relationships, Lichtenberg is clear about the adult-to-adult dimension of exploratory work in which provision is necessarily subordinate to inquiry. Craft and Spirit is aimed equally at prospective patients, therapists, and analysts, all of whom will be edified by this masterful demonstration of the ways in which a spirit of inquiry imbues the craft of psychotherapy, in Lichtenberg s words, with its liveliness of sustained purpose.
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Spis treści

1. A Facilitating Environment2. Sensing into the Mind-States of Another3. Affects and the Pathway to Motivation4. "The Message Contains the Message": Opening Communication to Its Fullest Revelation5. Filling the Narrative Envelope6. "The Wearing of Attributions": A Guideline for Therapists to Discover Who They Have Come to Be for Their Patients7. Model Scenes: A Guide to Bringing the Theater of the Mind onto the Patient-Therapist Stage8. How to Respond to a Message that Indicates There Is Something a Patient Doesn't Want Himself, His Therapist, or Both to Know9. The Therapist Speaks10. Evaluating ProgressCoda

O autorze

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanaytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.  He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Analytic Press, 2005) and, with Frank Lachmann and James Fosshage,  A Sprit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2002).