Time-Limited Psychotherapy in Practice

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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Also available in Hardback
  • Published: September 2001
  • ISBN: 978-1-58391-140-2
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Therapists and counsellors are under increasing pressure to provide effective treatment in a time-limited, demonstrably effective form. Time-Limited Psychotherapy (TLP) has developed in response, and is designed to give clients an intense form of therapy over 12 sessions. This title:

* Uses vivid clinical descriptions of treatments and up-to-date research findings

* Describes what the treatments entail

* Discusses their outcome

* Deals with teaching and learning of TLP regarding the changing conditions in public needs and in public services.

Time-Limited Psychotherapy in Practice will appeal to psychotherapists, counsellors, researchers and academics in the mental health field.

Table of Contents

Introduction - A Thirty Year Perspective of Time-Limited Psychotherapy. Why Time-Limited Psychotherapy? Time-Limited Psychotherapy - Fundamental Principles and the Therapeutic Model. Adolescence: The Capacity to Choose What to Be. Obsessive Personality - Coping with Perfectionism. Transition and the Narcissistic Personality. Shame - A Source of Abandonment, Change and Relationship Avoidance. Depression - Coping with Separation and Loss. Overcoming Helplessness - The Integration of Letter Writing into TLP. Working Through Separation Processes Both in Patient and Therapist - A Woman with Low Self Esteem. Borderline Personality Disorder - An Unsuccessful Therapy. Research in Time-Limited Psychotherapy. Teaching Learning and Training in Time-Limited Psychotherapy.