When Nothing Else Works Innovative Interventions with Intractable Individuals

by Strean, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780765700742
• ISBN10: 0765700743
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

Shows therapists how to deviate from the usual technical prescriptions in order to use themselves creatively and innovatively without losing sight of the patient's conflicts and therapeutic needs.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii	(6)
Prologue	xix
1 Intractable Individuals and Their Treatment: A Brief Review	1	(44)
2 The Man Who Slept in the Therapeutic Sessions	45	(10)
3 The Woman Who Was Helped to Be Silent	55	(10)
4 The Man Who Did Not Reveal His Name to the Therapist	65	(12)
5 The Boy Who Was Helped to Cheat at Checkers	77	(8)
6 The Girl Who Prescribed the Therapy She Needed	85	(10)
7 The Woman Who Was Castigated by the Therapist for Being Too Sexual	95	(12)
8 The Male Physician Who Was Helped to Leave Medicine	107	(12)
9 The Man Who Stopped Stuttering When He Was Told to Do So	119	(12)
10 The Woman Who Was Given Food during the Therapy	131	(12)
11 The Man Who Matured by Not Talking about Himself	143	(12)
12 The Woman Who Was Ordered to Come to Therapy	155	(14)
13 The Man Who Analyzed the Analyst	169	(14)
14 The Woman Who Was Told Not to Talk about the Therapist	183	(12)
15 The Insightful Experiment	195	(12)
16 The Man Who Sang in His Sessions	207	(12)
17 The Psychopath with the Strict Conscience	219	(12)
18 The Woman Who Did Better over the Telephone	231	(14)
19 When What I Tried Did Not Work	245	(16)
20 Summary and Conclusions	261	(10)
References	271	(8)
Index	279