Between Give And Take: A Clinical Guide To Contextual Therapy / Edition 1

by Ivan Krasner Boszormenyi-Nagy

Overview

In this volume, Boszormenyi-Nagy and Krasner provide a comprehensive, sharply focused guide to the clinical use of Contextual Therapy (CT) as a therapy rooted in the reality of human relationships. The authors describe a far-reaching trust-based approach to individual freedom and interpersonal fairness that makes possible a remarkably effective system of psychotherapy. Between Give and Take clearly delineates four basic dimensions of relational reality: factual predeterminants, human psychology, communications and transactions and due consideration or merited trust. It is this last dimension that is the cornerstone of CT. It builds on the realm of the "between" that reshapes human relationships and liberates each relating person for mature living.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138009448
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/12/2014
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, M.D. and Barbara R. Krasner, Ph.D.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Prologue ix

I Premises

1 An Orientation to Contextual Therapy 5

2 The Challenge of the Therapy of Psychotics: Background of the Contextual Approach 21

3 A Dialectic View of Relationship: The Development of the Contextual Approach 32

II Outlines of the Human Context

4 The Four Dimensions of Relational Reality 43

5 Interpersonal Conflicts of Interests: A Four-Dimensional Perspective 67

6 Three Aspects of the Dialogue Between Persons 73

7 Dialogue Between the Person and the Human Context 98

III Assessing the Context

8 The Client-Therapist Dialogue 137

9 Assessing Relational Reality 153

IV The Process of Therapy

10 Health, Autonomy, and Relational Resources 199

11 Rejunction: Reworking the Impasse 215

12 Resistances: Obstacles to Therapeutic Progress 226

V Therapeutic Methods

13 A Case Illustration 235

14 Balance in Motion: Crediting 263

15 Starting Therapy 274

16 Multidirected Partiality 281

17 Contextual Work with Marriage 313

VI Applications and Guidelines

18 The Evolving Face of Marriage 333

19 Divorce and Remarriage 345

20 Parenting Problems 356

21 Other Applications of Contextual Therapy 375

VII Therapists in Context

22 The Making of a Contextual Therapist 395

Endnote: On Meaning Between the Generations 409

Glossary 413

References 423

Index 427