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Strategies of Psychotherapy
Excerpt from Strategies of Psychotherapy
Therapists may range from indignation to squeamishness in their reao tions to the notion of deliberately manipulating the patient as presented in the section on directive therapy. I would caution those who have not tried the kind of techniques Haley describes, or that I have described in another publication, to either try this kind of intervention or speak to a friend who has weathered such an encounter. When Freud discovered transference, he discovered that the patient and therapist were involved in an interactional game that required skill on the therapist's part if both he and the patient were to benefit by the encounter. If the therapist is genuinely interested in helping the patient, and if he is experienced so that he can bring his skill to bear in at least a partially predictable way, then the style of the game he plays with the patient can vary widely and still be helpful. Therapy becomes manipulative, in the opprobrious sense of this term, only when the therapist is using the patient for various covert financial and/ or power reasons that have little to do with the pa tient's best interests.
It is an honor to have been asked to write the foreword to this book especially since I believe it to be unique. We have all been in need of it for some time.
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Therapists may range from indignation to squeamishness in their reao tions to the notion of deliberately manipulating the patient as presented in the section on directive therapy. I would caution those who have not tried the kind of techniques Haley describes, or that I have described in another publication, to either try this kind of intervention or speak to a friend who has weathered such an encounter. When Freud discovered transference, he discovered that the patient and therapist were involved in an interactional game that required skill on the therapist's part if both he and the patient were to benefit by the encounter. If the therapist is genuinely interested in helping the patient, and if he is experienced so that he can bring his skill to bear in at least a partially predictable way, then the style of the game he plays with the patient can vary widely and still be helpful. Therapy becomes manipulative, in the opprobrious sense of this term, only when the therapist is using the patient for various covert financial and/ or power reasons that have little to do with the pa tient's best interests.
It is an honor to have been asked to write the foreword to this book especially since I believe it to be unique. We have all been in need of it for some time.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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220 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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March 1, 2022
In this very interesting (but extremely dense) book the author takes us by the realm of modern psychotherapy techniques approached by the lenses of the patient/therapist relationship and enhancing the therapeutic paradox as a tool to bring cure.
From the book I got a few refreshing concept as looking to relationships as sequences of messages exchanged by both parties in the attempt to (re)define the relationship, the types of relationship (symmetric, complementary and meta-complementary), the power dynamics in a relationship and how both parties constantly fight for it and the role of resistance to change in the human relationships.
From the book I got a few refreshing concept as looking to relationships as sequences of messages exchanged by both parties in the attempt to (re)define the relationship, the types of relationship (symmetric, complementary and meta-complementary), the power dynamics in a relationship and how both parties constantly fight for it and the role of resistance to change in the human relationships.
March 5, 2011
Now this is one of the weirdest books I have read in quite some time. It goes to show how psychotherapy is regarded more as a battle of wills, than as a relation where all parties are willing participants. Some strategies described in here come across as somewhat immoral, though I cannot comment on the effectiveness as I am not a therapist. Might it be so that control is a requirement for healing?
November 29, 2016
A change to a inter-psychic way of seing humans, into a relation analysis - observational one.
Paradoxes as the commom principles of all therapies, that is why they work, this is the main thesis of Jay Haley, connected to the Palo Alto Sistemic School
Paradoxes as the commom principles of all therapies, that is why they work, this is the main thesis of Jay Haley, connected to the Palo Alto Sistemic School
December 28, 2014
It's not just for psychologists. It has many insights on how to deal with difficult -symptomatic- people. The Epilogue is a masterpiece of itself.
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