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Howard A. Bacal - Optimal Responsiveness, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

Optimal Responsiveness

How Therapists Heal Their Patients

Av Howard A. Bacal

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A new generation of dynamic therapists is taking a fresh look at what actually heals the patient. In contrast to the classical vision, whose essential feature is intervention by interpretation in an ambience of optimal frustration, Bacal's conception of optimal responsiveness legitimizes a whole repertoire of professional behaviors—empathic attunement, confrontation, support, self-disclosure, validation or invalidation.Everything the therapist does or does not do, does or does not say, is experienced by the patient as some kind of response. Because the relational dynamic is unique to each therapist—patient dyad, the therapist's responses can be tailored to meet the patient's needs, enhancing specificity. And because optimal responsiveness implies recognition of the therapeutic process as a reciprocal system, it also implies reconstrual of what we know as countertransference.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1998-04-01
  • Mått: 162 x 239 x 35 mm
  • Vikt: 778 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 392
  • Förlag: Jason Aronson Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780765701145
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Howard A. Bacal, who trained with Balint, Winnicott, and Bion at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis after earning his M.D. from McGill University, has worked with Heinz Kohut and is a leading exponent of the relational/self psychological perspective. He is co-author of Theories of Object Relations: Bridges to Self Psychology.

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Bacal turns our older shibboleths on their heads and comes up with a new psychotherapeutic model in his summation of the post-modern trajectory of self psychology, intersubjectivity, and relationalism. If optimal frustration was the principal feature of the clinical approach in the hey-day of drive theory, facilitation significantly extends our therapeutic reach in a more positive, humanistic direction. Optimal responsiveness epitomizes a turning point in how we understand and conduct psychotherapy today and supplies the overarching human dimension to a technique that has become mechanical, its sterility obvious. Bacal and his contributors challenge and relieve us at the same time.

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