Essential Psychotherapies, Third Edition: Theory and Practice / Edition 3

by Stanley B. Messer PhD, Alan S. Gurman PhD

Overview

This book has been replaced by Essential Psychotherapies, Fourth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4084-6.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462513543
Publisher:	Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Stanley B. Messer, PhD, is Dean of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he was Chairperson of the Department of Clinical Psychology for 9 years. He is interested in the application of psychodynamic theory and research to the brief and integrative therapies and has contributed to the debate on evidence-based practice. The author or editor of a number of books and many articles and book chapters, Dr. Messer is currently Associate Editor of the online journal Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy and serves on several other editorial boards. He is an American Psychological Association Fellow in the Society of Clinical Psychology, the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. Dr. Messer maintains a private practice in Highland Park, New Jersey.
 
Alan S. Gurman, PhD, until his death in 2013, was Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. A pioneer in the development of integrative approaches to couple therapy, he edited and wrote many influential books; was a past two-term editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy; and was former President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Dr. Gurman received numerous awards for his contributions to couple and family therapy, including the Distinguished Achievement in Family Therapy Research Award from the American Family Therapy Academy and the Distinguished Contribution to Family Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association. He also received the Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teaching and Training from the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
1. Contemporary Issues in Psychotherapy Theory, Practice, and Research: A Framework for Comparative Study, Stanley B. Messer and Alan S. Gurman
II. Psychoanalytic Approaches
2. Contemporary Freudian Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, David L. Wolitzky
3. Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Rebecca Coleman Curtis and Irwin Hirsch
III. Behavioral and Cognitive Approaches
4. Behavior Therapy: Traditional Approaches, Martin M. Antony and Lizabeth Roemer
5. Cognitive Therapy, Kimberly A. Dienes, Susan Torres-Harding, Mark A. Reinecke, Arthur Freeman, and Ann Sauer
6. Behavior Therapy: Functional-Contextual Approaches, William C. Follette and Glenn M. Callaghan
IV. Experiential and Humanistic Approaches
7. Person-Centered Psychotherapy and Related Experiential Approaches, Arthur C. Bohart and Jeanne C. Watson
8. Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapies, Kirk J. Schneider
VI. Systems Oriented Approaches
9. Family Therapies, Nadine J. Kaslow, Jeshmin Bhaju, and Marianne P. Celano
10. Couple Therapies, Alan S. Gurman
VII. Other Influential Models of Therapeutic Practice
11. Brief Psychotherapies, Michael F. Hoyt
12. Integrative Approaches to Psychotherapy, George Stricker and Jerry Gold
13. Group Psychotherapies, Virginia Brabender

Interviews

Students and clinicians in clinical psychology, counseling, psychiatry, social work, family therapy, and psychiatric nursing. Serves as a text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level psychotherapy courses.

Editorial Reviews

"For practitioners, [this book] provides an opportunity to enhance and augment their comprehension of different perspectives of personality and therapy. For the student, it affords an invaluable source of information as they become increasingly aware that no single approach can validly be considered to constitute the ultimate and true approach."

Transactional Analysis Journal

"I would want to expose students to all of the chapters in this book....The best feature of this book is the outstanding writing. The amount of jargon is kept to a minimum and the clarity of communication is at a maximum."

Psychotherapy Research

"Essential Psychotherapies is a classic. In the third edition, Messer and Gurman have once again accomplished their goal of providing a thorough exposition of the most important approaches of our field. The chapters are written by foremost authors who cover the waterfront from treatments with deep historical roots (such as dynamic and humanistic approaches) to those associated with empirical traditions (such as behavioral and cognitive-behavioral approaches), as well as those at the cutting edge (such as third-wave behavioral treatments). There is no more comprehensive and informative volume on this topic."—Bruce E. Wampold, PhD, ABPP, Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"All students, regardless of their theoretical preferences, need to be well versed in the major models of psychotherapy practice. Clinical training faculty have come to depend on this text to provide the essential information about each major model. In the third edition, Messer and Gurman demonstrate their awareness of evolving models by including a chapter on mindfulness, acceptance, and other 'third-wave' behavioral therapies. Instructors will enthusiastically choose this book as a primary text for their classes on psychotherapy theories."—JoEllen Patterson, PhD, LMFT, Department of Counseling and Marital and Family Therapy, University of San Diego; Divisions of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, and Global Health, University of California, San Diego
 
"This book has become a classic in the field. The editors provide an organizational framework for each chapter that makes it easy to compare the therapies. Each chapter presents a different therapy approach, including integrative therapies, and covers both theory and practice, with an extended case example and a section on research. This is an invaluable text for undergraduate and graduate courses on psychotherapy; in my experience, it has been very well received by students. It is one of the best psychotherapy resources I have come across in a long time."—Hal Arkowitz, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona

"This book offers a round-the-world tour of psychotherapy for both the student and the experienced practitioner. Chapters by distinguished experts reveal the breadth of the field, highlighting controversies, underlining similarities, taking on sacred cows, and celebrating traditions. Undergraduate teachers, graduate seminar leaders, and training directors will value the structure and clarity of the book as it tackles thorny, unresolved issues of relationship versus technique, integration versus specific models, and the nature of empirical support."—Richard F. Summers, MD, Co-Director of Residency Training, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

From the Publisher

"This book will serve as a text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course dealing with approaches to psychotherapy. It would also be helpful as a sourcebook for the clinician/therapist wishing to 'come up to speed' on techniques and theories."

Psychotherapy in Private Practice

Reviewer: Christopher J Graver, PhD, ABPP-CN(Madigan Healthcare System)
Description: Many psychotherapeutic approaches are used regularly with more approaches always being developed. This book provides a survey of the most common psychological treatments from theoretical underpinnings to specific therapeutic strategies.
Purpose: This third edition updates the literature on existing approaches and adds information about new approaches.
Audience: The book is targeted mainly at students of clinical psychology, but it would be appropriate for those in psychiatry, marriage and family therapy, and other counseling disciplines. The authors are scholarly clinicians with a strong empirical background in therapeutic approaches.
Features: More than an overview, the introductory chapter provides concise points for each of the major areas of psychotherapy and questions to stimulate thinking about the reader's own practice. This book covers 12 treatment approaches, including two psychoanalytic approaches, three behavioral and cognitive approaches, two humanistic approaches, two systems-oriented approaches, and select other models, such as brief therapy. The real strength of this book is the broad but useful coverage of each treatment. For example, each chapter explores the foundations and history, basic concepts, assessment considerations, an outline of session structures, key strategies for the treatment, research support, and future directions. Each chapter ends with a case illustration and suggestions for further erudition, including some audiovisual resources. The presentation and organization make this very easy to understand even at a glance. Using more tables to organize the information would be helpful, but the ones that are included are appreciated. The references are generally current and certainly reflect updates from the previous edition.
Assessment: This is a perfect introduction to the multitude of psychological treatment options with enough information for a broad understanding of the approach that will whet the appetite to seek resources for more detailed information. This would be an excellent choice for an introductory graduate psychotherapy course.

Doody's Review Service

This book will serve as a text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course dealing with approaches to psychotherapy. It would also be helpful as a sourcebook for the clinician/therapist wishing to 'come up to speed' on techniques and theories other than those to which he/she is committed and practicing.—Psychotherapy in Private Practice

— Edmund Shimberg

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