1st Edition

Clinical Epiphanies in Marital and Family Therapy A Practitioner's Casebook of Therapeutic Insights, Perceptions, and Breakthroughs

Edited By David A Baptiste Copyright 2002
460 Pages
by Routledge

460 Pages
by Routledge

460 Pages
by Routledge

How would you handle these situations? Check your expertise against the approaches presented here! This fascinating collection shows how a practicing therapist handled clients stuck in the therapeutic process. Clinical Epiphanies in Marital and Family Therapy: A Practitioner’s Casebook of Therapeutic Insights, Perceptions, and Breakthroughs presents a cross-section of approaches and orientations... Read more
  • About the Editor
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Case 1. Try Death on for Size
  • A Therapeutic Hail Mary
  • The Patience of a Saint
  • Case 2. Little League: The Feel of Dreams
  • If You Reframe It, They Will Come
  • Hit the Next Good Pitch
  • Case 3. You Might Get What You Wish For
  • Let’s Do Another Study
  • With Creativity We Engage Them
  • Case 4. Being There
  • Seduced by Urgency
  • Winning the Battle, but Losing the War?
  • Case 5. Be a Man
  • A Patient Therapist
  • Be a Good Person
  • Case 6. Sentenced to Life or United in Death
  • United in Therapy or United in Life
  • Sitting Outside the Therapy Room
  • Case 7. Fishing for Gender Equity
  • Matching the Bait with the Catch
  • Romancing the Gender Lens
  • Case 8. Seeing Is Believing
  • Finding One’s Voice
  • Show Me One More Time
  • Case 9. My Children Are Not Liars
  • My Children’s Good Example
  • Safety Is Trust in Mother
  • Case 10. A Young Man and a Penis Called Chipmunk
  • Sticks and Stones and Names Can Hurt You
  • Somatizing Sexual Secrets
  • Case 11. I Have No Problem
  • Born a Problem?
  • The Problem Is a Problem
  • Case 12. I’m Not Ready to Die!
  • Living with Connection
  • I’m Not Ready to Talk
  • Case 13. Visiting All Monsters
  • Trading Monsters for Dreams
  • Embracing Monsters
  • Case 14. Therapist or Firefighter?
  • Farmer, Naturalist, Environmentalist
  • Firefighters Need Teamwork
  • Case 15. Jimmy the Flying Reindeer and the Two Mothers
  • Where Are the Fathers?
  • Mediating Solomon’s Mothers in the Best Interest of the Child
  • Case 16. It’s All About the Dog
  • Never Too Old to Learn New Tricks
  • Wagging the Dog
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

David A Baptiste