Beyond the Therapeutic Relationship Behavioral, Biological, and Cognitive Foundations of Psychotherapy

• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• INTRODUCTION
• Attending to Therapeutic Catalysts
• The Common Factors Hypothesis
• The Need for Greater Scientific Grounding
• The Need for Integration
• Chapter 1. The Therapeutic Relationship: Beyond This Point of Convergence
• Toward a Standardized Terminology
• Interpersonal Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship
• Nonverbal Behavior and the Therapeutic Relationship
• Limitations of the Intrapsychic Approach to Psychotherapy Research
• Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter 2. Universal Variables: Toward a Higher-Order Theory
• A Discovery Investigation--Unraveling “What Has Already Occurred”
• Narrowing the Research Focus
• Developing a Common Framework
• The Need for a Scientific Theory
• Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter 3. Nonverbal Behavior, Information Processing, and Interpersonal Communication in Psychotherapy
• An Overview of Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Communication Theory
• Nonverbal Therapist Behavior as Nonspecific
• Nonverbal Behavioral Research in Psychotherapy
• Delineating Psychotherapeutic Variables
• The Need for Operationalism in Psychotherapy
• The Therapeutic versus Interpersonal Relationship
• Facilitative versus Growth-Inhibiting Behaviors
• Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter 4. Face-to-Face Interaction: The Behavioral, Biological, and Cognitive Relevance of Dominant Eye Contact in Psychotherapy
• Eye Contact Research in Psychotherapy
• The Significance of Eye Contact in the Therapeutic Relationship
• The Significance of Eye Dominance in Psychotherapy
• Eye Contact and Information Processing
• Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter 5. Intensive Experiential Exploration: The Psychobiological Significance of Client Verbalization and Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy
• The Self in Psychotherapy
• Affect, Catharsis, and Self-Disclosure
• Self-Disclosure as Therapeutic
• Psychobiological Bases of Therapeutic Self-Disclosure
• The Role of the “Other” in Reprocessing of Information
• The Psychotherapeutic Implications of Penfield’s Work
• “Blocks” to Information Processing and Interpersonal Communication
• Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter 6. The Talking Cure: Language as a Remedy for, and Source of, Neuroses and Incongruence
• Linguistics and Psychotherapy
• Seeking the Biological Bases of Language and Meaning
• Cognitive and Psychobiological Change Through Language and Discourse
• Language as a Bridge Between Mind and Brain
• The Genesis of Discursive Psychology
• Mind, Brain, and the Generation of Consciousness Through Language
• Thought and the Formation of the Mind
• Mind and the Phenomenon of Therapeutic Growth
• Therapeutic Growth versus Mental “Illness”
• Language and Discourse as a Remedy for Neuroses and Incongruence
• Constructive Language Process, or the “Unconscious”?
• Language and the Reconstruction of Personal Reality
• Reprocessing Information Through Asymmetric Relationships
• Therapeutic Outcome: Facilitating Self-Growth
• The Asymmetrical Talking “Cure”
• Autonomous Processes: The “Hardware” Underlying the “Software”
• Language as a Source of Neuroses and Incongruence
• Neural Limitations Underlying Reasoning
• Bridging the “Gap” Without the “Black Box”
• “Trapped” Within the Self
• Anxiety as a Signal for Change
• Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter 7. Facilitative Therapist Behaviors as a Modus Operandi: Integrative Eclecticism Within Transtheoretical and Common Factors Integration
• Scientific Roadblocks
• Facilitating the Re-Creation of the Client’s “Design”
• Toward Unifying the Person
• Asymmetry as a Universal Psychotherapeutic Characteristic
• Facilitative Face-to-Face Interacti

Biography

Frederic J Leger