Amazon.com: Introduction to the Technique of Psychotherapy: Practice Guidelines for Psychotherapists: Samuel I. Greenberg: Books

Book Description
There are now many fine books on psychotherapy, but the author felt that a basic, simply written book, with a minimum of theory, would be helpful to the beginning therapist. This is a practical book that includes only the more important issues that he has learned in forty years of study, practice, and teaching. The author tells the reader how he conducts psychotherapy: by having a format in mind, taking a comprehensive history, and a careful, observing examination of the patient. He then advises on how to conduct psychotherapy with various patients and with special consideration of certain problems. The book is clear enough to instruct the beginning therapist, yet complicated enough to allow the experienced psychotherapist to gain a few ³pearls.² The emphasis is on individual, dynamic psychotherapy. Once these fundamentals are learned, then technical procedures from the other theoretical approaches that have proven helpful can be added to the therapist¹s repertoire. The author indicates that there are no pure forms of psychotherapy and that, in time, each therapist will develop her own style, depending on her temperament and training. Some techniques she will follow exactly, some will be modified and others rejected. Dynamic psychotherapy is based on these fundamental concepts, but the technique has been modified to conform to the scientific and economic temper of the times. If one follows Doctor Greenberg¹s psychotherapy, responds to case managers with words similar to those he gives the reader, and allows results with patients to demonstrate the efficacy, the therapist will get approvals and get paid for helping patients in this way.

Introduction to the Technique of Psychotherapy: Practice Guidelines for Psychotherapists (Hardcover)