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Introduction |
xiii |
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Acknowledgments |
xxiii |
Chapter 1 |
Remove the Obstacles to Growth |
1 |
Chapter 2 |
Avoid Diagnosis (Except for Insurance Companies) |
4 |
Chapter 3 |
Therapist and Patient as "Fellow Travelers" |
6 |
Chapter 4 |
Engage the Patient |
11 |
Chapter 5 |
Be Supportive |
13 |
Chapter 6 |
Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's Window |
17 |
Chapter 7 |
Teach Empathy |
23 |
Chapter 8 |
Let the Patient Matter to You |
26 |
Chapter 9 |
Acknowledge Your Errors |
30 |
Chapter 10 |
Create a New Therapy for Each Patient |
33 |
Chapter 11 |
The Therapeutic Act, Not the Therapeutic Word |
37 |
Chapter 12 |
Engage in Personal Therapy |
40 |
Chapter 13 |
The Therapist Has Many Patients; The Patient, One Therapist |
44 |
Chapter 14 |
The Here-and-Now--Use It, Use It, Use It |
46 |
Chapter 15 |
Why Use the Here-and-Now? |
47 |
Chapter 16 |
Using the Here-and-Now--Grow Rabbit Ears |
49 |
Chapter 17 |
Search for Here-and-Now Equivalents |
52 |
Chapter 18 |
Working Through Issues in the Here-and-Now |
58 |
Chapter 19 |
The Here-and-Now Energizes Therapy |
62 |
Chapter 20 |
Use Your Own Feelings as Data |
65 |
Chapter 21 |
Frame Here-and-Now Comments Carefully |
68 |
Chapter 22 |
All Is Grist for the Here-and-Now Mill |
70 |
Chapter 23 |
Check into the Here-and-Now Each Hour |
72 |
Chapter 24 |
What Lies Have You Told Me? |
74 |
Chapter 25 |
Blank Screen? Forget It! Be Real |
75 |
Chapter 26 |
Three Kinds of Therapist Self-Disclosure |
83 |
Chapter 27 |
The Mechanism of Therapy--Be Transparent |
84 |
Chapter 28 |
Revealing Here-and-Now Feelings--Use Discretion |
87 |
Chapter 29 |
Revealing the Therapist's Personal Life--Use Caution |
90 |
Chapter 30 |
Revealing Your Personal Life--Caveats |
94 |
Chapter 31 |
Therapist Transparency and Universality |
97 |
Chapter 32 |
Patients Will Resist Your Disclosure |
99 |
Chapter 33 |
Avoid the Crooked Cure |
102 |
Chapter 34 |
On Taking Patients Further Than You Have Gone |
104 |
Chapter 35 |
On Being Helped by Your Patient |
106 |
Chapter 36 |
Encourage Patient Self-Disclosure |
109 |
Chapter 37 |
Feedback in Psychotherapy |
112 |
Chapter 38 |
Provide Feedback Effectively and Gently |
115 |
Chapter 39 |
Increase Receptiveness to Feedback by Using "Parts" |
119 |
Chapter 40 |
Feedback: Strike When the Iron Is Cold |
121 |
Chapter 41 |
Talk About Death |
124 |
Chapter 42 |
Death and Life Enhancement |
126 |
Chapter 43 |
How to Talk About Death |
129 |
Chapter 44 |
Talk About Life Meaning |
133 |
Chapter 45 |
Freedom |
137 |
Chapter 46 |
Helping Patients Assume Responsibility |
139 |
Chapter 47 |
Never (Almost Never) Make Decisions for the Patient |
142 |
Chapter 48 |
Decisions: A Via Regia into Existential Bedrock |
146 |
Chapter 49 |
Focus on Resistance to Decision |
148 |
Chapter 50 |
Facilitating Awareness by Advice Giving |
150 |
Chapter 51 |
Facilitating Decisions--Other Devices |
155 |
Chapter 52 |
Conduct Therapy as a Continuous Session |
158 |
Chapter 53 |
Take Notes of Each Session |
160 |
Chapter 54 |
Encourage Self-Monitoring |
162 |
Chapter 55 |
When Your Patient Weeps |
164 |
Chapter 56 |
Give Yourself Time Between Patients |
166 |
Chapter 57 |
Express Your Dilemmas Openly |
168 |
Chapter 58 |
Do Home Visits |
171 |
Chapter 59 |
Don't Take Explanation Too Seriously |
174 |
Chapter 60 |
Therapy-Accelerating Devices |
179 |
Chapter 61 |
Therapy as a Dress Rehearsal for Life |
182 |
Chapter 62 |
Use the Initial Complaint as Leverage |
184 |
Chapter 63 |
Don't Be Afraid of Touching Your Patient |
187 |
Chapter 64 |
Never Be Sexual with Patients |
191 |
Chapter 65 |
Look for Anniversary and Life-Stage Issues |
195 |
Chapter 66 |
Never Ignore "Therapy Anxiety" |
197 |
Chapter 67 |
Doctor, Take Away My Anxiety |
200 |
Chapter 68 |
On Being Love's Executioner |
201 |
Chapter 69 |
Taking a History |
206 |
Chapter 70 |
A History of the Patient's Daily Schedule |
208 |
Chapter 71 |
How Is the Patient's Life Peopled? |
210 |
Chapter 72 |
Interview the Significant Other |
211 |
Chapter 73 |
Explore Previous Therapy |
213 |
Chapter 74 |
Sharing the Shade of the Shadow |
215 |
Chapter 75 |
Freud Was Not Always Wrong |
217 |
Chapter 76 |
CBT Is Not What It's Cracked Up to Be ... Or, Don't Be Afraid of the EVT Boogeyman |
222 |
Chapter 77 |
Dreams--Use Them, Use Them, Use Them |
225 |
Chapter 78 |
Full Interpretation of a Dream? Forget It! |
227 |
Chapter 79 |
Use Dreams Pragmatically: Pillage and Loot |
228 |
Chapter 80 |
Master Some Dream Navigational Skills |
235 |
Chapter 81 |
Learn About the Patient's Life from Dreams |
238 |
Chapter 82 |
Pay Attention to the First Dream |
243 |
Chapter 83 |
Attend Carefully to Dreams About the Therapist |
246 |
Chapter 84 |
Beware the Occupational Hazards |
251 |
Chapter 85 |
Cherish the Occupational Privileges |
256 |
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Notes |
261 |