The Anatomy of Psychotherapy (Paperback)

I. Theory and Practice: The Trouble with Psychotherapy 1. Whatever Happened to the Therapist's Discomfort? 2. Discomfort Reflected in Theory: The Therapeutic Alliance 3. Looking to Theory for Help 4. Descriptive Help from Theory: Trends in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Treatment 5. Other Uses of Theory 6. Overview II. Practice Observed 7. Leaving Theory Temporarily 8. What Moves the Therapist? 9. Therapy Tasks that Theoy Must Explain 10. Therapy Tasks: How the Therapist Makes Sense of the Patient 11. Therapy Tasks: How the Patient Makes Sense of the Therapist III. Theory of the Mind: The Tool of Psychotherapy 12. Why Bother with Theory of the Mind? 13. The Historical Context 14. Freud's Foothold 15. Constructions of Freud's Paradigmatic Theory 16. Conclusion: The Nature and Function of a Theory of the Mind IV. Debate About Theory of the Mind: Revisions 17. Introduction 18. Peterfreund's Information-Processing Theory 19. Phenomenological Theory: Mind as a World of Representations 20. Schafer's Action Language 21. Levenson's Perspectivism 22. Gendlin's Vitalism 23. George Klein's Equilibrium Theory 24. Piaget's General Project 25. Piaget and Psychotherapy 26. Kohut's Mixed Theory 27. The Common Thread: Holism 28. Summary: The Need to Balance Perception and Influence V. What is a Psychotherapist 29. Ambiguity as a Discipline 30. Disambiguating Postures: General Considerations 31. Disambiguating Postures: The Reading Imperative 32. Disambiguating Postures: The Therapist's Historicism 33. Disambiguating Postures: The Therapist as Operator 34. How It Fits Together: Performable Model and Metaphor VI. Implications 35. Conclusion: No Resting Place 36. Training 37. The Future