Full Description
Transforming Negative Reactions to Clients will help therapists-established and novice-understand and constructively use the wide range of interfering feelings they experience in their working alliance with challenging patients. Contributors to this edited volume explore therapists amp rsquo negative reactions across major therapeutic approaches and across various disorders, including borderline personality disorder the concluding chapter contains practice and training recommendations.
Geared toward practicing psychotherapists and supervisors of apprentice therapists, the book draws on integrative and relational psychotherapy, research on the therapeutic alliance, and social psychology research on the reattribution of motive.
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Abraham W. Wolf, Marvin R. Goldfried, and J. Christopher Muran
I. Negative Reactions Across Therapeutic Approaches
Power Plays, Negotiation, and Mutual Recognition in the Therapeutic Alliance: amp quot I Never Met a Patient I Didn't Like amp hellip Eventually amp quot
J. Christopher Muran and Clara Hungr
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Rich but Implicit Relational Framework Within Which to Deal With Therapist Frustrations
Phillip G. Levendusky and David H. Rosmarin
Therapist Negative Reactions: A Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy Perspective
Robert Elliott
Difficulties With Clients in Gottman Method Couples Therapy
John M. Gottman and Julie S. Gottman
Managing Negative Reactions to Clients in Conjoint Therapy: It's Not All in the Family
Laurie Heatherington, Myrna L. Friedlander, and Valent amp iacute n Escudero
Compassion Amidst Oppression: Increasing Cultural Competence for Managing Difficult Dialogues in Psychotherapy
Laura S. Brown
II. Borderline Personality Disorder
Therapist Compassion: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Perspective
Shelley McMain and Carmen Wiebe
Managing Negative Reactions to Clients With Borderline Personality Disorder in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
John F. Clarkin and Frank Yeomans
III. Managing Negative Reactions Across Other Disorders
Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy: Working With Reactions to Chronically Depressed Clients
Hanna Levenson
Pattern Recognition in the Treatment of Narcissistic Disorders: Countertransference From a Unified Perspective
Jeffrey J. Magnavita
Negative Reactions to Substance-Using Clients: Where the Reactions Come From, What They Are, and What to Do About Them
Frederick Rotgers
Conclusion and Clinical Guidelines
Abraham W. Wolf, Marvin R. Goldfried, and J. Christopher Muran
Index
About the Editors
