In this original work, Robert Marshall demonstrates numerous approaches to helping hard-to-treat patients. He shows how to facilitate treatment with joining techniques such as mirroring, echoing, and reflection, and how the innovative concept of sequence therapy—a systemic analysis of child, adult, and familial resistance—and countertransference exploration can vastly improve a difficult therapeutic process, Resistant Interactions is a useful resource for clinicians with challenging patients, that is, every clinician. (510 pgs)
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Initiation of an Obsessional Adolescent Boy
(36 pp.)
The Prescription of Treatment for Children
Every child has deviations in every area of functioning, but has stronger drives for normal development and compensations. The goal for treatment should be to enable them to respond within the normal developmental pattern as quickly as possible. Children change as they develop. They may improve or get worse from their own inner resources as they progress from infancy, to early childhood, to mid-childhood, to puberty, to adolescence, and on to early adulthood. (73 pp.)
Considerations Arising from the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Child
There is nothing inherent in confrontation that insures its success. On the contrary, confrontation is often undertaken in a difficult therapeutic climate when resistance is hight and little understood by the patient. Not infrequently confrontation will be undertaken as a heroic measure in the hope that a faltering therapy may be set on a more solid footing.
Cognitive Control Therapy with Children and Adolescents
This book describes a cognitively oriented psychodynamic method of psychotherapy called cognitive control therapy (CCT), designed to treat children and adolescents who suffer both learning disabilities and serious behavior disorders. Like most therapeutic innovations it has been undergoing continuous change shaped by therapeutic necessity, clinical experiences and research findings.
