Six Therapists And One Client

Six Therapists and One Client

How would therapists using different theoretical systems handle the very same client?This volume demonstrates how six therapists working within the structures of six different major theoretical orientations would treat the same person. Approaches include:Ericksonian Hypnotherapy (Lankton) REBT (Ellis) Multimodal Therapy (Lazarus) Individual Psychotherapy (Corsini) Person-Centered Therapy (Zimring) Cognitive Behavior Therapy (McGrady)Each therapist explains the logic that underpins his or her clinical interventions. This think-aloud methodology will have great appeal for students and clinicians.Review"Comparative studies in psychology are very rare and much needed. This comprehensive and well-written book certainly fills a gap in the clinical literature. Its organization, in which the various theories are applied to a single case study, makes the volume particularly helpful in evaluating various modalities of treatments....Not only does the text include comprehensive information about each theory, it also includes personal background about each clinician and critiques for each therapeutic approach. These features make it especially useful for the practitioner, scholar, and student."--Florence L. Denmark, PhD, Robert Scott Pace Distinguished Professor, and Chair, Psychology Department, Pace University"...exciting and gripping read for intelligent laypersons hungering for an inside glimpse into the world of psychotherapy, a world that each of us, ourselves or our friends and families, will be destined to enter sooner or later in our lives."--Robert Perloff, PhD, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of PittsburghFrom the Back Cover708About the AuthorRaymond Corsini, PhD, has been a clinical psychologist for over 50 years. He started as a prison psychologist (15 years), then was in private practice in Chicago (5 years), then was an industrial organization psychologist (10 years), and finally was in private practice in Hawaii for 25 years.Frank Dumont, EdD, is a full professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at McGill University (Montreal). He has worked at McGill since 1972 in the capacity of teacher, researcher, chairman of his department, and coordinator of the PhD program in counseling psychology.