Download Author: Crits-Christoph, Paul, Ph.D.

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Understanding Transference: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method

In their classic volume Understanding Transference: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method, Luborsky and Crits-Christoph provided the first concrete validation of Freud’s observations about transference. Using Lester Luborsky’s much-acclaimed Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) method, they demonstrated how to measure reliably the recurring patterns in patients’ central relationship and how to explore such patters within psychodynamic psychotherapy and other talking therapies. This new edition is a valuable update for the many clinicians and researchers who use the CCRT method—the best empirical measure of transference in existence—and why it continues to be the instrument of choice for researchers and clinicians alike.

All of the chapters in this volume have been revised and updated, and six are entirely new. In Part I, the authors provide a survey of the basics of the CCRT method, including its history, scoring, standard categories, and detailed illustrations of the CCRT scoring of patient narratives. The Relationship Anecdotes Paradigm, a versatile new method for obtaining narratives told on request, is described in Chapter 7. The authors delve deeper into the multiple facets of the CCRT in Part II, where they explore nine directions to find the meaning of the CCRT measure. Also included in this section is a newly expanded study of the parallel of the CCRT within waking and dream narratives. There are also two new explorations of the consistency of the CCRT across time—from age 3 to age 5, and from before psychotherapy to during psychotherapy. In Part III, the book turns to more clinical applications of the CCRT method, including the everyday uses of the CCRT in practice. In the books integrative conclusion, the authors reflect on the convergence of many CCRT findings with Freud’s observations about transference and a set of prescriptions for the continued healthy growth of the CCRT method.

Dynamic Therapies for Psychiatric Disorders:Axis I

The growing demands of managed care and the increased sophistication of psychotherapy research have helped push researchers and practitioners beyond the question of whether psychotherapy is effective. In today’s climate we must know what treatments are effective for what types of patients. This trailblazing book offers an important first step in establishing those distinctions within a dynamic perspective. The editors of this volume asked experts in the psychodynamically oriented treatment of various disorders (including depression, panic, generalized anxiety, drug or alcohol abuse, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress, schizophrenia, dissociative states, grief reactions, and HIV-related issues) to write in detail about the techniques they use.

While the range of dynamic approaches offered here varies from interpersonal to object relations to self psychology, the contributors all present their techniques in a uniform way that makes it easy for practitioners to put them to immediate use. Each chapter presents the history and development of the method, the selection criteria used for treatment, specific dynamic issues, treatment goals, theory of change, techniques, vivid case examples, training issues, and empirical evidence for the approach.

All the techniques have been used extensively in clinical settings. Several have also been rigorously tested in research comparing different forms of treatment for specific disorders. With its detailed techniques, its theoretical sophistication, and its impressive array of contributors, this book will go far in advancing the science and art of psychotherapy. (707 pp.)

Reviews:

“This book is truly unique in bringing together theorist/clinicians representing a diversity of psychodynamic models of therapy, all sharing the common goal of applying dynamic interventions to DSM Axis I disorders. Reading this book should be a high priority for psycho-dynamic therapists who aim to be relevant in the current health care delivery system.”

—Jeffrey L. Binder Ph.D., A.B.P.P.
Georgia School of Professional Psychology

“Kudos to the authors and contributors for their groundbreaking contribution. Their comprehensive and well-organized book offers state-of-the-art, empirically demonstrated, effective treatment approaches for Axis I disorders. Suitable for both seasoned clinicians and students, this remarkably pragmatic book will serve as an invaluable resource in the changing mental health environment.”

—Carol Tosone Ph.D., C.S.W.
Shirley M. Ehrenkranz School of Social Work, New York University

Handbook of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

This book thoroughly describes ten different approaches to short-term dynamic psychotherapy: the traditional short therapies, including Time Limited Psychotherapy devised by James Mann, Short-Term Anxiety-Provoking Psychotherapy first developed by Peter Sifneos, and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy originated by Habib Davanloo. It then turns to newer approaches, ranging from the Vanderbilt Approach to Time-Limited Dynamic Therapy of Stress Response Syndromes, from Dynamic Supportive Psychotherapy to Brief Adaptive Psychotherapy. (603 pp.)