Therapeutic Communication: Knowing What to Say When (Paperback, 2)

Introduction
1. Rethinking the Talking Cure: The Therapist Speaks Too
I. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations
2. The Continuing Evolution of Psychotherapy: New and Converging Developments in Psychoanalytic, Cognitive-Behavioral, Systemic, and Experiential Approaches
3. Attending to Attachment: Accelerating Interest in the Therapeutic Implications of Attachment Theory and Research
4. Cyclical Psychodynamics I: Vicious and Virtuous Circles
5. Cyclical Psychodynamics II: Anxiety, Exposure, and Interpretation
6. Cyclical Psychodynamics III: Insight, the Therapeutic Relationship, and the World Outside
II. Clinical Applications and Guidelines
7. Accusatory and Facilitative Comments: Criticism and Permission in the Therapeutic Dialogue
8. Exploration, Not Interrogation
9. Building on the Patient’s Strengths
10. Affirmation and Change
11. Attribution and Suggestion
12. Reframing, Relabeling, and Paradox
13. Therapist Self-Disclosure: Prospects and Pitfalls
14. Achieving Resolution of the Patient's Difficulties: Resistance, Working Through, and Following Through
III. Postscript
15. Therapeutic Communication with Couples, Ellen F. Wachtel