| Reaching Through Resistance: Advanced Psychotherapy Techniques Contributor(s): Abbass, Allan, MD (Author) |
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ISBN: 0988378868 ISBN-13: 9780988378865 Publisher: Seven Leaves Press OUR PRICE: $44.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - General |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.50 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: About half of all psychotherapy clients have little to no response or can even worsen in treatment. Why? They unknowingly use treatment-defeating behaviors, or resistances, that prevent emotional closeness and successful collaboration with the therapist. Reaching through Resistance will help you detect treatment resistance from the first client contact understand the emotional factors behind resistance discern various degrees and forms of resistance recognize signs of anxiety in the body activate and monitor unprocessed, unconscious impulses and feelings turn a client against his/her long-held defeating behaviors regulate intense anxiety when emotions are activated mobilize the client's unconscious wish to become well recognize signs of a powerful healing force: the unconscious therapeutic alliance By detecting avoidance patterns and using specific interventions developed to handle them, you can empower a collaborative, vigorous treatment alliance with yo |