Treating Affect Phobia: A Manual for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy - Softcover

McCullough, Leigh; Kuhn MD Phd, Nat; Andrews, Stuart; Kaplan, Amelia; Wolf, Jonathan; Hurley, Cara Lanza; Kuhn, Nat; Hurley, Cara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572308109 ISBN 13: 9781572308107

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 2003

Synopsis

This hands-on manual from Leigh McCullough and associates teaches the nuts and bolts of practicing short-term dynamic psychotherapy, the research-supported model first presented in Changing Character, McCullough's foundational text. Reflecting the ongoing evolution of the approach, the manual emphasizes "affect phobia," or conflict about feelings. It shows how such proven behavioral techniques as systemic desensitization can be applied effectively within a psychodynamic framework, and offers clear guidelines for when and how to intervene. Demonstrated are procedures for assessing patients, formulating core conflicts, and restructuring defenses, affects, and relationship to the self and others. In an easy-to-use, large-size format, the book features a wealth of case examples and write-in exercises for building key clinical skills. The companion website (www.affectphobiatherapy.com) offers useful supplemental resources, including Psychotherapy Assessment Checklist (PAC) forms and instructions.

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About the Author

Leigh McCullough, PhD, until her death in 2012, was Associate Clinical Professor and Director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts), and a visiting professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway). She was the 1996 Voorhees Distinguished Professor at the Menninger Clinic and received the 1996 Michael Franz Basch Award from the Silvan Tomkins Institute for her contributions to the exploration of affect in psychotherapy. Dr. McCullough was on the editorial boards of Psychotherapy Research and the Journal of Brief Therapy, and conducted training seminars in Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (STDP) worldwide.

Nat Kuhn, MD, PhD, is Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and Assistant Director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Harvard Medical School. He teaches STDP and supervises at the Cambridge Hospital and elsewhere. Dr. Kuhn has a private psychotherapy and psychiatry practice in the Boston area, and a Web site, www.natkuhn.com. Before going to medical school he was a mathematician.

Stuart Andrews, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Assistant Director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Harvard Medical School. He has presented at international conferences and conducted training seminars on STDP. He has taught and supervised clinicians and students, and published articles on psychotherapy integration and short-term therapy. Mr. Andrews is also Director of the Center for Families in Transition, where his program, "For the Sake of the Children," is mandated in a number of communities in Massachusetts for parents going through divorce.

Amelia Kaplan is a graduate student in clinical psychology at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, where she pursues interests in mind-body psychology, STDP, group therapy, and human sexuality.

Jonathan Wolf, MD, was a member of the Psychotherapy Research Program for three years. After graduating from Boston University School of Medicine, he entered the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program.

Cara Lanza Hurley, PhD, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Loyola University Chicago in 2005.

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Introduction

Part I. Theory, Evaluation, and Formulation

Chapter 1. Affect and Affect Phobia in Short-Term Treatment

Chapter 2. Affect Phobia, Psychodynamic Conflict, and Malan's Two Triangles

Chapter 3. Assessment and Selection of Treatment for the Patient

Chapter 4. How to Formulate a Core Psychodynamic Conflict: Spotting Affect Phobias

Part II. Defense and Affect Restructuring
Introduction to Part II

Chapter 5. Defense Restructuring Phase I: Defense Recognition

Chapter 6. Defense Restructuring Phase II: Defense Relinquishing

Chapter 7. Affect Restructuring Phase I: Affect Experiencing

Chapter 8. Affect Restructuring Phase II: Affect Expression

Part III. Self- and Other-Restructuring
Introduction to Part III

Chapter 9. Self-Restructuring: Building Compassion and Care for Self

Chapter 10. Other-Restructuring: Building Adaptive Inner Images of Others

Part IV. Diagnostic Considerations and Termination

Chapter 11. Treating Specific Diagnoses: The Relationship between DSM Diagnoses and Affect Phobias

Chapter 12. Termination

Appendix. Answers to Exercises

References

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1572308109
• ISBN 13: 9781572308107
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310