ABSTRACT
With today's recent mental health care reforms many psychotherapists are being forced to reexamine the relevance of their practices. Economic pressures, managed care, and the discrepancy between what a therapist hopes to accomplish, and what the relative limitations of his or her treatments are, makes the future of psychotherapy uncertain. This provocative new book examines the failings of current individual psychotherapies and offers a model based on larger interpersonal schemes. This resource will be invaluable not only to therapists who are faced with the need to modify their practices, but also to any mental health practitioner who hopes to develop a more effective form of psychotherapy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |27 pages
The Field of Psychotherapy
chapter |14 pages
Overview
chapter |11 pages
Shortcomings of Individual Psychotherapy
part |48 pages
The Interpersonal
chapter |15 pages
The Interpersonal Orientation
chapter |16 pages
Conjoint Therapy
chapter |14 pages
Group Approaches
part |49 pages
Applications of the Interpersonal Orientation