Cognitive Psychodynamics as an Integrative Framework in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy
This book proposes a novel method of combining the current approaches to counselling and psychotherapy into one coherent framework. The authors argue that the cognitive behavioural tradition (largely focused on thought patterns) and the psychodynamic appr
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Cognitive Psychodynamics as an Integrative Framework in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy
Tony Ward · Arnaud Plagnol
Cognitive Psychodynamics as an Integrative Framework in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy
Tony Ward Department of Health and Social Sciences University of the West of England Bristol, UK
Arnaud Plagnol Paris 8 University St. Denis, France
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To Adele, Anna, Amy, Marceline and Calista
Preface
Hundreds, if not thousands, of psychotherapy methods have been described. If you have a very liberal mind, you can rejoice in such an “offer”: A chacun son bonheur!1 (as they say in the bazars of France). Indeed, such a profusion, undoubtedly a reflection of the complexity and creativity of the human mind, could be welcomed if we had tools to guide clients in choosing a therapy. However, to our knowledge, there is no unified framework where the different types of therapy can be described, their specificities mapped and their indications outlined. In fact, each school of therapy is rather accustomed to developing on its own account, each claiming to be well founded in clinical experience. The universe of psychotherapies seems to the naive psychology student somewhat compartmentalized between the worlds of these different schools. In particular, a deep canyon seems to separate the bases of cognitive-behavioural therapies from those of psychodynamic or existential therapies. Some build on experimental psychology, others on intuitions about s
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