BookLotte Hartmann-Kottek.
Summary: This book highlights common similarities between the various schools of psychotherapy. It provides psychotherapists with the underlying neurophysiological, developmental psychological and relationship-oriented matrix (basic needs and their regulation, deficits, trauma and conflict processing patterns, including accompanying exercises) as well as opportunities for healing correction and stabilisation - and the ways in which to apply these methods in a therapeutically mindful way for the benefit of the patient. The new university-based psychotherapy training covers the four fundamental schools of psychotherapy, i.e. the previous standard approaches plus the systemic and humanistic ones. Focusing on the common ground builds bridges of understanding and encourages collaboration. This expanded, new range of methods to access patients constitutes a substantial development in the field of psychotherapy and will also influence the psychotherapy practice of experienced colleagues. Written for medical and psychological psychotherapists, psychosomatic doctors, psychiatrists and other specialists with additional psychotherapeutic qualifications, and for students of psychotherapy. .
Contents:
Intro
Preface
Contents
Acknowledgements
General Psychotherapy
1: Psychotherapy Between Tradition and Awakening and Between Multiplicity and Integrity
1.1 Psychotherapy as Science During a Period of Upheaval and the Search for Common Ground
1.1.1 What Is Psychotherapy and Where Does It Belong as a Field?
1.1.2 The Multiplicity of Our Psychotherapeutic Approaches - Confusion or Abundance?
1.1.3 The Risk: When Research Turns into the Plaything of Competing Associations
1.1.4 Are There Any Interdisciplinary Common Factors? 1.2 "Objectivity" - The Uncontroversial Main Feature of "Scientific Character"
1.2.1 The Belief in Reason - A Gift from the Enlightenment
1.2.2 The Drawback of Bias
1.2.3 The Temptation to Define "Science" Using Currently Available Measurement Tools
1.3 The "Necessary" Rediscovery of Subjectivity and Its Stake with Regard to Healing Therapy
1.3.1 The Lack of Emotion Creates a New Abundance
1.3.2 In Praise of Setting Limits: Crisis Intervention for Traumatic Inundation
1.3.3 The Birth of Resource Perception, Encounters and Searching for Meaning 1.3.4 The Acceptance of Creativity, Physical Comfort and Role Play
1.3.5 Simultaneous Fascination and Anti-establishment Sentiment: The Humanist Wave Hits Germany
1.3.6 The Convincing Triumph of Empathy and Its Social Commitment
1.4 The Discovery of the Abundance of Interspaces and Interpersonal Multi-person Structures
1.4.1 The Apparent "Gaps" in Relationships
1.4.2 The Pioneering Spirit of the First Generation of Couple, Family Therapy and Organisational Counsellors 1.5 The Unconscious - A Treasure Trove or an Unpredictable Sphinx? Discoveries in the Depths and Distance of Consciousness
1.5.1 The Multifaceted Nature of the Unconscious
1.5.2 Historical Milestones
1.5.3 Hypnosis, Trance and Hypnotherapy
1.6 "Artificial Intelligence" and the Complexity of Natural Brain Activity
1.7 Mindfulness - The Borderline Impact of Transcendental Spaces
1.7.1 Historical Waves of Encounters Between the "West" and the "Far East"
1.7.2 Current Interest in "Mindfulness-Based" Therapy Approaches
1.8 The "New Science of Psychotherapy" 1.8.1 Diversity with Common Reference Sciences
1.8.2 General Development Trends
1.8.3 Abandoned Aspects of Therapy
1.8.4 The Zeitgeist in Upheaval
1.8.5 Opportunities for Synopsis
Literature
2: Efficacies and Common Factors
2.1 Mindful Awareness: As an Organ of Perception and as a Creative Force
2.1.1 Two Consciousness-Modifying Forms of Being from One Basic Substance: The Focusing-Separating "Materialising-Locating" Pole - and the Interconnected-Oscillating, Non-local, Potentially Information-Receiving Pole with Floating Mixed States of Di