Therapy Breakthrough
Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better Than Others
1st Edition
Published on 14. August 2013
288 pages
978-0-8126-9846-6 (ISBN)
Description
More people are in psychotherapy than ever before. Yet most of them have no idea of the vast differences between the hundreds of various schools of therapy. Therapy Breakthrough is the first book to clearly explain the theories and practices of the two big camps: Psychodynamic or PD therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral or CB therapy. PD therapists believe that emotional problems are caused by hidden forces in our unconscious minds, forces that cannot be observed directly and that resist being uncovered. CB therapists, by contrast, maintain that the roots of people's emotional and behavioral disturbances can be identified by direct questions, and these problems can then be tackled by straightforward techniques. Therapy Breakthrough is written from the standpoint of CB therapy. Using psychological research, philosophy, and common sense, it argues that PD therapy is founded on mistaken theories of the mind, and explains how to apply CB methods directly to your own problems.
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Michael R. Edelstein | Richard K. Kujoth | David Ramsay Steele
Therapy Breakthrough
Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better Than Others
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Persons
Michael R. Edelstein: Michael R. Edelstein is a psychotherapist in San Francisco. He co-authored Stage Fright: 40 Stars Tell You How They Beat America's #1 Fear (2009) and Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (1997).
Richard Kujoth: Richard Kujoth is a psychotherapist in Urbana, Illinois.
David Ramsay Steele: David Ramsay Steele is author of Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy (2008) and co-author of Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (1997).
Richard Kujoth: Richard Kujoth is a psychotherapist in Urbana, Illinois.
David Ramsay Steele: David Ramsay Steele is author of Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy (2008) and co-author of Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (1997).
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. What Happened to Psychotherapy?
- 2. Therapy Isn't Therapy!
- 3. The Old and New Therapies in Action
- 4. Where the Old Therapy Came From
- 5. Psychoanalysis. . . Testing, Testing
- 6. Therapy Before Ellis
- 7. The Conquistador with His Pants Down
- 8. The Recovered Memory Craze
- 9. Your Unconscious Has No Mind of Its Own
- 10. Heroes of the Revolution
- Postscript
- Appendix: Is Psychoanalysis Falsifiable?
- Select Bibliography
- Index
