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1 online resource (349 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgment; Introduction; Attending to Therapeutic Catalysts; The Common Factors Hypothesis; The Need for Greater Scientific Grounding; The Need for Integration; Chapter 1. The Therapeutic Relationship: Beyond This Point of Convergence; Toward a Standardized Terminology; Interpersonal Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship; Nonverbal Behavior and the Therapeutic Relationship; Limitations of the Intrapsychic Approach to Psychotherapy Research; Summary and Conclusion |
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Chapter 2. Universal Variables: Toward a Higher-Order TheoryA Discovery Investigation -- Unraveling ""What Has Already Occurred""; Narrowing the Research Focus; Developing a Common Framework; The Need for a Scientific Theory; Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 3. Nonverbal Behavior, Information Processing, and Interpersonal Communication in Psychotherapy; An Overview of Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Communication Theory; Nonverbal Therapist Behavior as Nonspecific; Nonverbal Behavioral Research in Psychotherapy; Delineating Psychotherapeutic Variables |
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The Need for Operationalism in PsychotherapyThe Therapeutic versus Interpersonal Relationship; Facilitative versus Growth-Inhibiting Behaviors; Summary and Conclusion; Chapter 4. Face-to-Face Interaction: The Behavioral, Biological, and Cognitive Relevance of Dominant Eye Contact in Psychotherapy; Eye Contact Research in Psychotherapy; The Significance of Eye Contact in the Therapeutic Relationship; The Significance of Eye Dominance in Psychotherapy; Eye Contact and Information Processing; Summary and Conclusion |
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Chapter 5. Intensive Experiential Exploration: The Psychobiological Significance of Client Verbalization and Self-Disclosure in PsychotherapyThe Self in Psychotherapy; Affect, Catharsis, and Self-Disclosure; Self-Disclosure as Therapeutic; Psychobiological Bases of Therapeutic Self-Disclosure; The Role of the ""Other"" in the Reprocessing of Information; The Psychotherapeutic Implications of Penfield's Work; ""Blocks"" to Information Processing and Interpersonal Communication; Summary and Conclusion |
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Chapter 6. The Talking Cure: Language as a Remedy for, and Source of, Neuroses and IncongruenceLinguistics and Psychotherapy; Seeking the Biological Bases of Language and Meaning; Cognitive and Psychobiological Change Through Language and Discourse; Language as a Bridge Between Mind and Brain; The Genesis of Discursive Psychology; Mind, Brain, and the Generation of Consciousness Through Language; Thought and the Formation of Mind; Mind and the Phenomenon of Therapeutic Growth; Therapeutic Growth versus Mental ""Illness""; Language and Discourse as a Remedy for Neuroses and Incongruence |
| Summary |
Seeking to transfer knowledge across ideological boundaries within a theoretically valid, scientific framework, Beyond the Therapeutic Relationship draws upon and relates existing research from psychotherapy and the allied fields of human behavior. Author Frederic J. Leger has successfully cut across multifarious therapies to create an integrated, high-order theory that unites psychotherapy's disparate forces. In the process, he addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the field of psychotherapy, the paradigm of the therapeutic relationship and its centrality to therapeutic change, the diffi |
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Constructivistic Language Processes, or the ""Unconscious""? |
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Psychotherapy -- Philosophy
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Psychotherapy -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317790792 |
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1317790790 |
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