174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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The specific guidelines to the clinical management of the bored or boring patient--offered in this provocative book--will be valuable to all psychotherapists. Contributors discuss the fascinating theories and therapies of boredom--why it is both a necessity and an obstacle to a person’s development. Fresh insights into the meaning of boredom for the patient or the therapist (or both) are presented... Read more
Contents
Boredom as a Text in Waiting: A Preface
- An Awakening and Complexity
- Boredom: Theory and Therapy
- The Bored and Boring Patient
- Functions of Boredom: Treatment Implications
- Characterological Boredom as Symptom and Tragedy
- The Bored Patient: A Developmental/Existential Perspective
- Treating the Bored Client With Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET)
- Client-Therapist Boredom: What Does It Mean and What Do We Do?
- The Use of the Therapist’s Self in the Treatment of the Bored Patient
- The Bored Client: A Logotherapy Approach
- Transition Boredom
- On the Feeling of Longing With Schizophrenic Patients
- Boredom in Marital Therapy: A Clinician’s Reflections
- Some Lively Thoughts on Boredom
- Holding On When You Feel Like Letting Go
- Paralysis of the Soul: When Life Becomes Boredom
Biography
E. Mark Stern
