The Practice of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
Since the earliest years of its development, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) has been hailed for its clinical innovation and transformative power with clients across the range of disorders. Building on the foundations of their earlier volumes abou
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Jonathan W. Kanter · Mavis Tsai · Robert J. Kohlenberg Editors
The Practice of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
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Editors Jonathan W. Kanter Department of Psychology University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee WI 53201 USA [email protected]
Mavis Tsai 3245 Fairview Avenue East Seattle WA 98102 USA [email protected]
Robert J. Kohlenberg Department of Psychology University of Washington Seattle WA 98195-1525 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-5829-7 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-5830-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-5830-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926926 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business 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 is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Preface
Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) was born after a gestational period during which Kohlenberg and Tsai, as behavioral scientist practitioners, worked with clients who demonstrated profound changes far exceeding the specific stated goals of therapy through a highly emotional therapeutic process. Combining their clinical instincts, a genuine concern and therapeutic love for their clients, and precise behavioral analyses of the processes that seemed to be responsible for the profound changes observed, the full articulation of FAP appeared in 1991 with Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Creating Intense and Curative Therapeutic Relationships. FAP has evolved significantly since that first publication, with its many advances in research and clinical technique summarized in 2008 in A Guide to FAP: Using Awareness, Courage, Love and Behaviorism by Tsai, R. J. Kohlenberg, Kanter, B. Kohlenberg, Follette, and Callaghan. A Guide to FAP provides an update to the original FAP text, bringing together primary members of the community of FAP clinicians and researchers that has developed since the original book in a collaborative effort to refine and expand upon the initial framework. The current volume originally was intended as Part II of A Guide to FAP. Through the process of writing and editing that book, we hoped to celebrate the larger FAP community and the compassion and intelligence that guide its work, by including chapters representing the con
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