Therapeutic Failures in Psychotherapy

Preface
Shigeru Iwakabe

1.    Improving our understanding of therapeutic failure: A review
Jim McLennan

2.    The melody of ruptures: identifying ruptures through acoustic markers
Tohar Dolev-Amit, Aviv Nof, Amal Asaad, Amit Tchizick and Sigal Zilcha-Mano

3.   Deadlock in psychotherapy: A phenomenological study of eight psychodynamic therapists’ experiences
Andrzej Werbart, Emma Gråke and Fanny Klingborg

4.    The beginning of the end: a comparison of treatment completers and early dropouts in trainee-provided time-limited cognitive behavioral therapy
Adelya A. Urmanche, Lauren M. Lipner, Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, Elaine Hunter, Jerzy Kaufmann, Jonathan T. Warren, Gregory T. Weil, Catherine F. Eubanks and J. Christopher Muran

5.   Failure to respond to the patient’s coaching: a case study of premature termination in psychodynamic psychotherapy
David Kealy, James McCollum, John T. Curtis, George Silberschatz, Aafjes Katie and Xiaochen Luo

6.   Alliance rupture and repair processes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy: multimodal in-session shifts from momentary failure to repair
Anna Mylona, Evrinomy Avdi and Evangelos Paraskevopoulos

7.   Failure in psychotherapy: a qualitative comparative study from the perspective of patients diagnosed with depression
Nicolás Suárez-Delucchi, Alex Keith-Paz, Mahaira Reinel, Sofía Fernandez and Mariane Krause

8.   Therapist dishonesty across theoretical orientations
Mandy Newman and Barry A. Farber

9.   How Graduate-student or Recent Graduate Psychotherapists Experience and Manage Errors in Psychotherapy
Sarah Knox, Karisse A. Callender, Tin Weng Mak, Shannon Skaistis and Graham Knowlton

10. The self-critical patient in clinical supervision: a qualitative study of therapists’ alliance struggles and emotional reactions in short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression
Vicky Hennissen, Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove, Reitske Meganck, Dries Dulsster, Juri Krivzov and Mattias Desmet

11.  The final session of psychodynamic psychotherapy for satisfied and unsatisfied clients who initiate the end of treatment
Naama Shafrana, Kathryn Kline, Ellen Marks, Shudarshana Gupta, Kristen G. Pinto-Coelho, Yoshinobu Kanazawa and Clara E. Hill

12. Contrasting two improved and two unimproved cases of patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms after multicomponent treatment
Lucia Polakovská, Jan Roubal, Michal Čevelíček and Tomáš Řiháček

13.  What are the sources of feelings of incompetence in experienced therapists?
Anne Thériault and Nicola Gazzola

14.  Psychotherapy failures: to err is human
Nicola Gazzola and Shigeru Iwakabe

Biography

Nicola Gazzola is Professor of Counselling Psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His main research interests are in the domains of clinical supervision, the experience of the therapist in the process of therapy, and counselling identity, including the collective identity of the profession of counselling as well as the individual professional identity of the counsellor.

Shigeru Iwakabe is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ritsumeikan University in Osaka, Japan. He conducts psychotherapy research on client emotional processes from an integrative perspective. His research interests include training and professional development in psychotherapy, case study research methods, psychotherapy integration, and cultural and social issues related to the practice of psychotherapy.

Sarah Knox is Professor in the Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA. The vast majority of her research is qualitative, and specifically uses consensual qualitative research (CQR). She focuses primarily on the psychotherapy relationship and process, training and supervision, and advising relationships and processes.