Lives Transformed

by David H. Malan, Patricia C. Della Selva

The world has long awaited compelling and unmistakable evidence for the validity of dynamic psychotherapy. A review in the present book shows that such evidence has been accumulating over the past ten years. It comes from clinical trials, process research, case studies, and objective physiological measurements concerned with the importance of expressing emotions. This book extends the evidence. It provides an in-depth examination of therapy in action, based on verbatim accounts of the treatment of seven patients by the author, using the technique of Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (at times extending to medium-term). This technique has been shown to be both effective and cost-effective with a wide range of patients, including some who are notoriously resistant to psychotherapeutic intervention. The raw data of psychotherapeutic sessions enables the reader to trace the origin of therapeutic effects, which occur immediately in response to the direct experience of hitherto buried feelings and impulses.

Genres: Psychology

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Ingeborg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mye artig terapeutisk snacks i denne! Detaljert og spennende gjennomgang av fem terapiforløp med ulike problemstillinger (min favoritt: the cold-blooded businessman). Veldig mange «aha-opplevelser» fra delen skrevet om affektiv nevrobiologi og kobling mellom kropp-sinn + utvikling av psykosomatiske symptomer. Bruker en del plass på å argumentere for metodens effektivitet/overlegenhet, men lett å se forbi dette.

Boka får et enormt plusspoeng for myriaden av fengende huskeregler jeg 100% kommer til å stjele, inklusivt «What you resist, persists», «Feeling is healing» og «Assess, not assume/Explore, don’t explain».

Avslutter med et slående sitat fra Leigh McCullough Vaillant (1997) gjengitt i boka med følgende ordlyd, «the more one can laugh when happy, cry when sad, use anger to set firm limits, make love passionately, and give and receive tenderness fully and openly, the further one is from suffering. And the fuller one is with the joy of existence, the more generous one can be towards others».

[Azin karimi · Rating 5 out of 5]

چهار فصلی ک مربوط ب درمان چهار بیمار هست خیلی خوب نوشته شده و کاملا کاربردی هست برا روان شناسایی ک در حال یادگیری istdp هستن. فصل دو و فصل های آخر منتهی بیشتر به ترویج و تبلیغ و صحبت از روایی و اعتبار رویکرد پرداخته.

[Kent · Rating 5 out of 5]

Astonishing book. Some people are addicted to the TV show Intervention. I'm addicted to psychology books with strikingly beautiful stories of redemption and re-birth, when miserable people change and discover happiness. In other words, the case studies are good, and the psychology seems to be based on a major breakthrough in the understanding of how people can become happy.