Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Creating Intense and Curative Ther
As cognitive behavior therapy becomes increasingly integrated, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) remains a rich therapeutic method. FAP synthesizes aspects of psychodynamic and object relations therapy with traditional CBT methods, and author/ pract
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Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Creating Intense and Curative Therapeutic Relationships
Robert 1. Kohlenberg University (~r WashinRton Seattle. WashinRton
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Mavis Tsai Clinical PsycholoRist in Private Practice Seattle. Washington
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Robert 1. Kohlenberg University of Washington Seattle, Washington
Mavis Tsai Seattle Washington
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kohlenberg, Robert 1. Functional analytic psychotherapy: creating intense and curative therapeutic relationships I Robert 1. Kohlenberg and Mavis Tsai. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-387-70854-6
1. Behavior therapy. 2. Psychotherapist and patient. I. Tsai, Mavis. II. Title. [DNLM: 1. Behavior. 2. Professional-Patient Relations. 3. Psychoanalytic Therapy. WM 460.6 K79FJ RC489.B4K65 1991 616.89'142-dc20 DNLMIDLC for Library of Congress
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ISBN 978-0-387-70854-6 ISBN 978-0-387-70855-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-70855-3
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To our parents, Jack and Bess Kohlenberg Edwin and Emily Tsai, whose steadfast love, support, and pride provided the foundation for our strivings and accomplishments.
Preface
This book was born out of the many years of collective experience in treating and thinking about our clients. We view this work as a treatment manual with guidelines for creating deep, intense, meaningful, and healing therapeutic relationships. It is not a collection of techniques, although a fair share of them are included. Instead, we have described a conceptual framework that is intended to guide a therapist's activity. Although the theory we use is particularly well suited for this purpose, as soon as we name it, we lose most of our audience. Thus, our desire to impart intellectual stimulation and to share our clinical insights is hampered by the very vehicle on which we rely. Clinicians do not easily take on new techniques that are given to them in a book. They are particularly unlikely to be receptive if the theory on which these techniques are based causes a strong, negative reaction. This theory, however, is widely misinterpreted and misunderstood; as a consequence, the first chapter contains explanations of the major tenets of radical behaviorism and addresses some of these misunderstandings (You
