Working with the Core Relationship Problem in Psychotherapy: A Handbook for Clinicians

In this important book, noted author, teacher, and psychologist Althea J. Horner shows how to reveal, understand, and use the powerful Core Relationship Problem which is formed from earliest childhood and creates an image of the self in relation to others so it can act as a Rosetta stone for understanding the underlying conflict that repeatedly plays out in a client’s behavior. Once this essential element is uncovered clinicians can work with their clients to successfully resolve common presenting problems.
Grounded in the author’s wealth of research and practical experience, the book is filled with illustrative examples and accessible information that demonstrates how to work with difficult personality types and problematic issues that often surface during the course of therapy. For example, the author explains how to achieve results with clients who exhibit obsessive– compulsive disorder, dissociated states, and Don Juan behavior. She also shows how to react if a client wants to be hugged, offers a gift, or resents paying for treatment. In addition the book offers practical advice on how to handle the difficult issues of transference/countertranference and work with clients who can sabotage the therapeutic process by trying to win over the therapist.
As timely as it is comprehensive, the book offers specific recommendations for dealing with termination issues and offers solutions for the special problems that can arise when working with patients in a managed care environment. The book is also a vital resource for therapists who are in a supervisory position.


Spis treści:
Section I: Underlying Theoretical Precepts.
1. The Unconscious and the Archaeology of Human Relationships.
Section II: The Core Relational Problem.
2. Construction of the Developmental Hypothesis: The Hypothesis.
3. Construction of the Developmental Hypothesis: Method of Data Gathering.
4. The Place of the Signifier in Psychoan alytic Object Relations Theory.
5. The Contribution of Family System Pathology to Core Relational Problems.
6. Belief Systems and the Analytic Work.
Section III: Some Common Clinical Problems and Issues.
7. Deciphering the Compromise Formation: A Psychological Rosetta Stone.
8. "OCD": The Medicalization of Psychopathology and the Importance of Preserving a Psychology of the Mind.
9. Working with Dissociated Self–States.
10. Cherchez La Mere: Disturbances of Object–Seeking Behavior in the Wake of Early Abandonment Experience.
11. Money Issues and Analytic Neutrality.
12. Religion, Values, and Clinical Issues.
13. The Therapist′s Core Relationship Problem: Countertransference Resistence.
14. Moments of Decision: What Do I Say? What Do I Do?.
Section IV: Difficult Patients and Clinical Problems.
15. Interminable Therapy and Transference Resistance.
16. When "Helping" Doesn′t Help: The Negative Therapeutic Reaction.
17. "Moral Masochism" Revisited: Working With the "Good Girl".
18. "Those Wrecked by Success" Revisited: Envy and the Fear of Being Envied.
19. Managed Care as a Clinical Issue.
Section V: For Supervisors Only.
Core Relational Problems and the Supervision Process.

Nota biograficzna:
ALTHEA J. HORNER is a distinguished author, teacher, psychologist, and author of many classic and award–winning books including Object Relations and the Developing Ego in Therapy, Being and Loving, The Wish for Power and the Fear of Having It, Treating the Neurotic Patient in Brief Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalytic Object Relations Therapy.

Okładka tylna:
In this important book, noted author, teacher, and psychologist Althea J. Horner shows how to reveal, understand, and use the powerful Core Relationship Problem which is formed from earliest childhood and creates an image of the self in relation to others so it can act as a Rosetta stone for understand ing the underlying conflict that repeatedly plays out in a client’s behavior. Once this essential element is uncovered clinicians can work with their clients to successfully resolve common presenting problems.
Grounded in the author’s wealth of research and practical experience, the book is filled with illustrative examples and accessible information that demonstrates how to work with difficult personality types and problematic issues that often surface during the course of therapy. For example, the author explains how to achieve results with clients who exhibit obsessive– compulsive disorder, dissociated states, and Don Juan behavior. She also shows how to react if a client wants to be hugged, offers a gift, or resents paying for treatment. In addition the book offers practical advice on how to handle the difficult issues of transference/countertranference and work with clients who can sabotage the therapeutic process by trying to win over the therapist.
As timely as it is comprehensive, the book offers specific recommendations for dealing with termination issues and offers solutions for the special problems that can arise when working with patients in a managed care environment. The book is also a vital resource for therapists who are in a supervisory position.