The Structure of Individual Psychotherapy

by Bernard D. Beitman

Book Overview

Underlying numerous psychotherapeutic techniques are principles guiding the evolution of the therapeutic relationship, the identification of maladaptive patterns, and the process of change. These principles form the structure of individual psychotherapy. Dr. Beitman calls these stages engagement, pattern search, change and termination. Each stage has a common structure: specific goals, characteristic content, basic techniques, and predictable distortions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089862682X
• ISBN13: 9780898626827
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"