A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Awareness, Courage, Lov

"In 1991 Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) was among the first new approaches that proved that behavioral psychology could be brought more fully and effectively into psychotherapy. In this long awaited volume, leaders in FAP show how the model has d

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Mavis Tsai Robert J. Kohlenberg Jonathan W. Kanter Barbara Kohlenberg William C. Follette Glenn M. Callaghan l

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A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Awareness, Courage, Love, and Behaviorism

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Mavis Tsai Private practice and University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA [email protected]

Robert J. Kohlenberg University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA [email protected]

Jonathan W. Kanter University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee WI, USA [email protected]

Barbara Kohlenberg University of Nevada-Reno, Reno NV, USA [email protected]

William C. Follette University of Nevada-Reno, Reno NV, USA [email protected]

Glenn M. Callaghan San Jose State University San Jose CA, USA [email protected]

ISBN: 978-0-387-09786-2 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-09787-9

e-ISBN: 978-0-387-09787-9

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008938817 # Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper springer.com

Preface

Our first book, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Creating Intense and Curative Therapeutic Relationships, was published almost two decades ago. We finished that manuscript a day before our son was born, and as he has grown and flourished, so has FAP. We concluded that book with the statement, ‘‘If this book produces just one meaningful, intense, client-therapist relationship that otherwise would have not occurred, then, for us, it was useful.’’ In fact, based on the feedback we have received, countless meaningful interactions have occurred as a result of therapists using FAP principles. Our book has been translated carefully into Portuguese (Rachel Kerbauy, Ph.D., Fa´tima Conte, Ph.D., Mali Delitti, Ph.D., Maria Zilah da Silva Branda˜o, M.A., Priscila Derdyk, M.A., Regina Christina Wielenska, Ph.D., Roberto Banaco, Ph.D., and Roosevelt Starling, M.A.), Japanese (Hiroto Okouchi, Ph.D. Takashi Muto, Ph.D., Akio Matsumoto, M.A., Minoru Takahashi, M.A., Toshihiko Yoshino, Ph.D., Hiroko Sugiwaka, Ph.D., Masanobu Kuwahara, M.A.,Yuriko Jikko, M.A., and Mariko Hirai, M.A.) and Spanish (Luis Valero, Ph.D., Sebastian Cobos, B.A., Rafael Ferro, Ph.D., and Modesto Ruiz, M.A.), and we have presented numerous workshops nationally and internationally to enthusiastic audiences. The relevance of FAP rules and methodology appears universal for all therapists who want to create more inten