Overview
- Is one of the first books to focus on the importance of the psychotherapeutic stance
- Argues that understanding how a therapist relates to a patient is essential to good psychotherapy
- Offers a critical perspective on predominant ways of understanding psychotherapy
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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What Can We Learn from Psychotherapy Research?
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Front Matter
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The Psychotherapeutic Stance
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Keywords
- Sensitive Psychotherapeutic Stance
- Relational Skills and Treatment Outcome
- Countertransference
- Corrective Emotional Experiences
- Psychotherapeutic Training and Bildung
- Evidence-based Psychotherapy
- Mentalization-based Therapy
- Contextual Model of Psychotherapy
- Optimizing Psychotherapeutic Treatment
- Psychotherapeutic Culture
- Therapist Personal Qualities/The Therapist as a Person
- Therapeutic Relationship
About this book
This book provides a thorough critique of the dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy and argues for a dynamic relational understanding of psychotherapy, deeply founded in the most important results from empirical psychotherapy research. In the first part, the book critically examines the traditional focus on technical factors in psychotherapy based on available empirical research on the subject. It asks questions about whether specific techniques cure specific diagnoses or therapists and therapeutic relationships that cure persons. Part II of the book argues that the currently dominating medical understanding of psychotherapy must be challenged by a better understanding of psychopathology and psychotherapy that contextualizes the relationship between therapist and the patient. Overall, this book provides a new approach to some of the most important questions in psychotherapy and discusses what it means to think and work psychotherapeutically. The book is highly relevant for professionals in clinical/psychotherapy training and for advanced courses in psychotherapy, including courses on mentalization-based therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and eclectic psychotherapy.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Carsten René Jørgensen is Professor at the Department of Psychology, Aarhus University. He received a PhD in clinical psychology from Aarhus University in 1999. He has worked as an associate professor at the University of Aalborg and has been at Aarhus University for nearly two decades, where he became a full professor in clinical psychology in 2009. He has been Head of the Department of Psychology (2014-16), and vice head of the department (2016-19). Since 2002 Professor Jørgensen has also been affiliated with the Clinic for Personality Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov/Skejby, where he has done empirical psychotherapy research and worked with long-term psychodynamic (including mentalization-based and psychoanalytic) psychotherapy for borderline and other personality disorders. He has completed formal training in group analytic psychotherapy from the Institute for Group Analysis, Copenhagen (1994-97). In 1993-96, he worked as a clinical psychologist at the regional psychiatric hospital (Hillerød) in the greater Copenhagen area (Day Hospital Department and Department for Psychotherapy in Helsingør). He has published six books (all published by the leading Scandinavian publisher Hans Reitzels Forlag in Copenhagen), around 20 book chapters in peer-reviewed books, and over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Psychotherapeutic Stance
Authors: Carsten René Jørgensen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20437-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20436-5Published: 06 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20439-6Published: 11 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20437-2Published: 24 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 286
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychotherapy and Counseling, Quality of Life Research, Philosophy of Mind