Focused Psychotherapy: A Casebook Of Brief Intermittent Psychotherapy Throughout The Life Cycle


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Focused Psychotherapy Offers practitioners an approach to psychotherapeutic treatment that is both financially viable and has sufficient clinical depth to assure genuine psychological growth. Providing a strikingly clear description of this approach, this volume enables psychotherapists to quickly hone in on the client's true agenda, therefore avoiding unnecessarily long and drawn out therapeutic work.Focused Psychotherapy: A Casebook Of Brief Intermittent Psychotherapy Throughout The Life Cycle Review
The author describes a new approach to psychotherapy called "psychojudo." This unconventional technique involves doing something unusual to clients in order to shock them into behaving normally. For example, the author describes the case of a schizophrenic woman who fell to the floor and stopped breathing during a therapy session. The author's response was to tell her to keep holding her breath so he could take a photograph of her on the floor. This was supposed to shock her out of her schizophrenia. In response to a suicidal client who said he had decided to jump off a bridge, the author says he told the client "Go on, kill yourself, the hell with you" (page 232). This is supposed to surprise the client and make him want to live. One wonders whether psychology has reached the point where such techniques are considered good therapy. The author also presents a diagnostic scheme based on vegetables. Onion clients are those who hurt inside, while garlic clients are those who bother other people. The book continues at this intellectual level. The book is not without its entertainment value, but ethical therapists should look elsewhere for guidance on how to practice competent psychotherapy.Most of the consumer Reviews tell that the "Focused Psychotherapy: A Casebook Of Brief Intermittent Psychotherapy Throughout The Life Cycle" are high quality item. You can read each testimony from consumers to find out cons and pros from Focused Psychotherapy: A Casebook Of Brief Intermittent Psychotherapy Throughout The Life Cycle ...

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