Psychotherapy with "Impossible" Cases The Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans

by Duncan, Barry L.; Hubble, Mark A.; Miller, Scott D.

• ISBN13: 9780393702460
• ISBN10: 0393702464
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This book, a companion to the authors' Escape from Babel, describes therapy with a number of patients who had defeated numerous clinicians and become "veterans" of the system. Using a flexible approach that emphasizes relationship, hope, and a plan for the future, the authors turn these cases around, setting the clients on a path of independence and health.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
SECTION 1: EXPERIENTIAL AND EMPIRICAL INFLUENCES	1	(34)
CHAPTER 1 Changing the Rules of Impossibility	3	(19)
CHAPTER 2 Accommodating Therapy to the Client's Frame of Reference: The Empirical Argument	22	(13)
SECTION II: CLINICAL METHODS	35	(54)
CHAPTER 3 Working with Impossibility: Therapist Considerations	37	(13)
CHAPTER 4 Conversations with Impossibility: Making the Impossible Possible	50	(22)
CHAPTER 5 Exploring, Discovering, and Validating: The Case of Natalie	72	(17)
SECTION III: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS	89	(100)
CHAPTER 6 Case Example: Dissociative Identity Disorder or "A Collage of Gifts"	91	(31)
CHAPTER 7 Case Example: Delusional Disorder or "Surviving Until Retirement"	122	(32)
CHAPTER 8 Case Example: Borderline Personality Disorder or "What's Wrong with Me?"	154	(35)
SECTION IV: EPILOGUE	189	(20)
CHAPTER 9 Impracticability: Taking a Different Path	191	(18)
References	209	(6)
Index	215