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9780765702418

Opening Gambits The First Session of Psychotherapy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780765702418

  • ISBN10:

    076570241X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-03-01
  • Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
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Summary

This books offers guidelines to enhance the clinician's ability to conduct an effective first session. Armstrong identifies eight essential tasks of the first session, (including, for example, an atmosphere of safety, patient assessment, the contract, and transition), and demonstrates the steps he takes to accomplish them.

Author Biography

Peter S. Armstrong, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. A director on the Oregon Psychological Association Board of Directors, he is currently on the faculty of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
The First-Session Experience
1(8)
The Therapist's Stance
9(56)
The Contract---First Negotiations
65(18)
The Contract---Fees and Legal Issues
83(40)
Assessment
123(56)
Transition to the Opening Phase
179(8)
The Phone Call
187(6)
My First Session with a Patient
193(14)
Special Cases
207(18)
References 225(4)
Index 229

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