Description
This book brings together a global community of mental health professionals to offer an impassioned defence of relationship-based depth psychotherapy.
Expressing ideas that are integral to the mission of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), the authors demonstrate a shared vision of a world where this therapy is accessible to all communities. They also articulate the difficulties created by the current mental health diagnostic system and differing conceptualizations of mental distress, the shortsightedness of evidence-based care and research, and the depreciation of depth therapy by many stakeholders. The authors thoughtfully elucidate the crucial importance of therapies of depth, insight, and relationship in the repertoire of mental health treatment and speak to the implications of PsiAN’s mission both now and in the future.
With a distinguished international group of authors and a clear focus on determining a future direction for psychotherapy, this book is essential reading for all psychotherapists.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Tom Wooldridge
1. Psychotherapy Action Network: Seeing Beyond the Crossroads
Nancy Burke, Linda L. Michaels and Janice R. Muhr
Section I: The Social, Political, and Economic Context
2. CBF: Cognitive Behavioral Fallacies
Farhad Dalal
3. The Cost-Effectiveness of Dynamic Psychotherapy: The Obstacles, The Law and a Landmark Lawsuit
Susan G. Lazar
4. In Name Only? Mental Health Parity or Illusory Reform
Meiram Bendat
5. The Exclusion of Psychoanalysis in Academic and Organized U.S. Psychology: On Voodooism, Witch-Hunts and the Legion of Followers
Oksana Yakushko
6. The Psycho-Politics of Evidence Based Practice and the Assault on Our Mental Health and Mental Health Care
Allan Scholom
Section II: Therapies of Depth, Insight, and Relationship
7. Relational Healing in Psychotherapy: Reaching Beyond the Research
Enrico Gnaulati
8. Two Perspectives of Mental Distress
John Thor Cornelius
9. Diagnosis and Its Discontents: Reflections on Our Current Dilemma
Nancy McWilliams
10. Toward a Science of the Heart: Romanticism and the Revival of Psychology
Kirk Schneider
Section III: Implications and Future Actions
11. Going Beneath the Surface: What People Want From Therapy
Santiago Delboy and Linda L. Michaels
12. Mirror And Window: What Each Reveals
Todd Essig
13. Psychoanalytic Applications in a Diverse Society
Pratyusha Tummala-Narra
14. The Rights of Children
Erika Schmidt
15. Long-term Treatment in the Rearview Mirror
William S. Meyer
Epilogue: Stepping Toward the Future: PsiAN's Vision
Linda L. Michaels, Janice R. Muhr and Nancy Burke
