Essays on Integrative Psychotherapy by Richard G. Erskine - 9781041040712

Essays on Integrative PsychotherapyDevelopmental and Relational Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Richard G. Erskine\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041040712, 978-1041040712\nSynopsis\nThis book is a distinctive collection of essays on the theory and methods of a developmentally-based, relationally-focused integrative psychotherapy.\n\nIn an easy-to-read style, Richard Erskine elaborates on a relationally-focused psychotherapy for acute and cumulative neglect, dissociation, alcoholism, obsession, prolonged grief, as well as psychotherapy with couples. Detailed examples of actual psychotherapy sessions illustrate the therapeutic methods of both phenomenological and developmental inquiry as well as the significance of the psychotherapist's interpersonal involvement through acknowledgment, validation, normalization, and presence. Each chapter takes the reader into further depths of understanding the complexities of an in-d.