196 Pages
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Routledge
Originally published in 1988, Effective Psychotherapy: The Silent Dialogue , reissued here with a new foreword by the author’s son, explores various debates within psychotherapy. The book offers a transtheoretical psychotherapy seeking to explain its covert processes – its “silent dialogue” – together with an accompanying operative strategy and set of technical principles. The attempt is made to... Read more
New Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction 2. A Curious Profession 3. The Mysterious Treatment: Psychotherapy 4. The Devalued Self and Implications for Treatment 5. Psychotherapeutic Giving: The Communication of Positive Regard 6. Subliminal Modeling: A Model Role for Psychotherapists 7. Resistance and Related Issues 8. Problems of Psychotherapy: Cognitive Solutions 9. Problems of Psychotherapy: Eclectic Solutions 10. Technique 11. Applications 12. Summary and Conclusions. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Robert J. Decker was, at the time of original publication, a psychotherapist in private practice.
