Book Review: Psychotherapy: Confrontation Problem-Solving Technique

The confrontation problem-solving technique: applicability to Adlerian psychotherapy.

Book Review Constitutional Confrontation

Much has been written about the flight of Hong Kong residents to various western countries in the past few years. The popular fear of political instability, which has caused this flight, stems from the anticipated transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China ("PRC" or "China") in 1997. If present emigration figures' are used to predict the future...

Confrontation techniques in Adlerian psychotherapy.

The characteristics and purposes of confrontation techniques have been variously described by different authors. Devereux (5), a psychoanalyst, perhaps the first to write on the subject, defines confrontation as "a device whereby the patient's attention is directed to the bare factual content of his actions or statements, or to a coincidence which he has perceived but has not, or professes to h...

Book Reviews Psychotherapy

Resistance, plainly spoken, refers to the problems encountered by patients when they attempt to address and master feelings and experiences that had been previously avoided or diminished. It has been central to psychoanalytic and dynamic accounts of treatment for well over a century, both as a means of gauging how the process of treatment is proceeding and as a target of treatment in its own ri...

Book Reviews Psychotherapy

This book is written by a renowned psychoanalyst who is best known for his American object relations point of view and his work with patients with borderl ine and narcissist ic personali ty disorders. He is now in the twilight of his career and looks back at the theoretical, technical, and political changes that he has seen over 45 years of practice as a psychotherapist. Giovacchini trained in ...