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Psychological Mindedness: A Contemporary Understanding (Lea Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology) - Hardcover
Synopsis
Psychodynamically-oriented clinicians have long emphasized the relevance of psychological mindedness to effective therapy. But what does the term mean? That has been a difficult question to answer. There have been a variety of definitions and measures not only of psychological mindedness but of related constructs such as alexithymia, private self-consiousness, self-focused attention, social perspective taking, and personal intelligence.
Over the past decade, McCallum and Piper have developed their own definition and measure of psychological mindedness, and have examined the extent to which it predicts patient response to psychodynamic psychotherapy. This book is both a collection of both their own efforts and those of their fellow researchers in this broad field. It attempts to increase mental health practitioners' understanding of psychological mindedness and its importance to patient assessment and treatment. It also provides practical methods for assessing psychological mindedness and addresses its relevance to interpersonal contexts outside the mental health field.
This book will facilitate clinicians' efforts to select the most appropriate patients for their particular approaches to therapy, which will in turn reduce client dropout rates and maximize therapeutic processes and outcomes.
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Psychological Mindedness makes a clarifying contribution to the literature. The book is carefully conceived and organized; intellectual freedom is evident, and ideas unfold without bias.
—Psychiatric Services
...it is rare to find a comprehensive volume that carefully documents the definition, empirical development, and application of a construct in psychotherapy and personality research. This is such a volume and should be of great use to researchers....All the chapters are engagingly written and the editors do an excellent job of identifying the crucial research issues that need to be addressed.
—Psychotherapy Research
...fascinating and well edited book that explores, in a richly textured fashion, the key attribute or ability known as psychological mindedness. The engagingly written chapters take the concept well beyond its use as a selection criterion for psychotherapy into the realm of its relationships to personality and cognitive factors such as personal intelligence and social perspective taking, as well as to psychopathology. We are treated to psychological and biological explanations of psychological mindedness, including an intriguing evolutionary perspective, backed up by empirical research and clinical examples.
—Stanley Messer, PhD
Rutgers University
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