Essential psychtherapies : theory and practice

"The leading survey text for basic psychotherapy courses, this book offers authoritative, engaging presentations of the 12 most important forms of psychotherapy practiced today. Prominent experts cover traditional treatments as well as influential models that have been developed relatively rece...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gurman, Alan S. (Author), Messer, Stanley B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Guilford Press , c2011
Edition:3rd ed
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Contemporary issues in psychotherapy theory, practice, and research: a framework for comparative study
  • 2. Contemporary Freudian psychoanalytic psychotherapy
  • 3. Relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy
  • 4. Behavior therapy: traditional approaches
  • 5. Cognitive therapy
  • 6. Behavior therapy: functional-contextual approaches
  • 7. Person-centered psychotherapy and related experiential approaches
  • 8. Existential-humanistic psychotherapies
  • 9. Family therapies
  • 10. Couple therapies
  • 11. Brief psychotherapies
  • 12. Integrative approaches to psychotherapy
  • 13. Group psychotherapies