1st Edition

New Approaches to Integration in Psychotherapy

Edited By Eleanor O'Leary, Mike Murphy Copyright 2007
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Psychotherapy is an area that has seen huge growth in prominence and practice. The range of theoretical schools that have emerged means that practitioners are striving to amalgamate and synthesise new approaches and theories. New Approaches to Integration in Psychotherapy provides a snapshot of the latest theoretical and clinical developments in the field of integration. Eleanor O'Leary and... Read more

Cowie, Foreword. Part I: Frameworks and Theoretical Integrations. O'Leary, The Need for Integration. O'Leary, Murphy, A Framework for Integrative Psychotherapy. O'Leary, Person Centred Gestalt Therapy. Wahlström, The Narrative Metaphor and the Quest for Integration in Psychotherapy. O'Leary, Barry, Gestalt Reminiscence Therapy. Hawkins, Hypnoanalysis: An Integration of Clinical Hypnosis and Psychodynamic Therapy. Nestoros, Integrative Psychotherapy of Schizophrenic Symptoms: Recent Developments. Collard, Multimodal Stress Therapy: An Integrative Approach. Part II: Professional and Clinical Integrations and Special Populations. Nestoros, Zgantzouri, Polemikos, The Integrative Collaboration of a Psychologist with a Psychiatrist. Polemikos, Papaeliou, Some Practical Issues in Working Integratively with Children and Parents. Gongora, Psychosocial Interventions in Families with an Ill Member: Possibilities and Experiences. Kalaitzaki, Nestoros, Ameliorating Interrelating Within Families of Psychotic Persons: An Integrative Approach. O'Leary, Breathing and Awareness: The Integrating Mechanisms of Cognitive-Behavioural Gestalt Therapy in Working with Cardiac Patients. O'Leary, Sheedy, Integrating the Personal and Professional Development of Therapists. Part III: Issues for Professional Consideration. Harris, Standard, Thoresen, Integrating Spiritual and Religious Factors into Psychological Treatment: Why and How. Swain, Integration of Ethics and Practice. O'Leary, Murphy, Conclusion: Psychotherapy Integration: A Journey in Small Steps. 

Biography

Professor Eleanor O'Leary is Head of the Department of Applied Psychology at University College Cork, Ireland, and has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University, and the University of Malaga.

 

Mike Murphy is a lecturer in the Department of Applied Psychology, University College Cork and a graduate of applied psychology and medical science and is attached to the Counselling and Health Studies Centre at University College, Cork.

'This is a book to be read and re-read as part of the journey of discovery that we are all engaged in as researchers, academics, practitioners, and, of course, as human beings.' - Professor Helen Cowie, University of Surrey, from the Foreword