Making Room for the Disavowed

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Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, is Distinguished Professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at The City College of New York. Dr. Wachtel has been a leading voice for integrative thinking in the human sciences and is a cofounder and past president of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. He is a recipient of the Hans H. Strupp Memorial Award; the Distinguished Psychologist Award from Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of the American Psychological Association (APA); the Scholarship and Research Award from Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of APA; and the Sidney J. Blatt Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychotherapy, Scholarship, Education and Practice.

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In this uniquely integrative book, Paul L. Wachtel describes powerful clinical strategies to make roomfor aspects of the self that were sidetracked in the course of development.

Contenu

I. Introduction

1. Making Room for Thoughts and Feelings: Attachment, Self-Acceptance, and Emotional Immediacy
2. Silos, Stereotypes, and the Evolutionary Links between Diverse and Competing Approaches
3. What Is the Appropriate Evidence Base for Responsible Clinical Practice?
   II. Beyond Pathologizing: The Dialectics of Acceptance and Change
4. From Interpreting Wishes and Feelings to Making Room for Them: The Problem with Uncovering the Truth
5. The Roots of Pathologizing and Accusatory Interpretations
6. Anxiety, Exposure, and the Path to Self-Acceptance
7. Making Room in CBT: From Beck and Ellis to the Dialectics of Acceptance and Change
   III. Attachment and the Lifelong Dynamics of Development
8. Self-Acceptance and Self-Rejection: The Critical Impact of Attachment
9. Working in the Present on the Consequences of the Past
   IV. Living-in-the-World
10. Experiencing, Emotional Immediacy, and Self-in-Action
11. Living in Contexts: From the Relational Matrix to the Impact of Culture and Society
12. The Many Faces of Psychotherapy
    References
    Index