Presenters: ALEXANDER MORGAN, MD and JEREMY NAHUM, MD
CHANGE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: A UNIFYING PARADIGM. 2010. NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
"Employing concepts derived from infant research and systems theory, the BCPSG proposes a new way of conceptualizing relational interaction. This is a radical departure from the Freudian understanding of what produces therapeutic change. Consequently, we can no longer think of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis as a ‘talking cure." -Arnold H. Modell, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and training and supervising analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute
"This book is a must-read for psychodynamic clinicians, both beginning and advanced. In a field where little is truly novel, the Boston Change Process Study Group has been breaking new ground for the last fifteen years, creating a new paradigm for therapeutic action. This clearly written and compelling new volume is a chronicle of that journey. These authors assert that the therapeutic relationship itself, even in the absence of interpretation, is a sufficient condition for therapeutic change. Whether or not one is in agreement with this position, it is a point of view in contemporary psychoanalytic discourse that must be read, understood, and considered." -Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine
Since 1994, the Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG) has published articles on the most fundamental of therapeutic concepts: change. This book, which consists of significant papers by the BCPSG, traces the group’s contributions to psychoanalytic topics of note, including: the location of the implicit, the creation of meaning, the moment-by-moment clinical process, and the subjective experience of the therapist. The book also includes new introductions to selected chapters, which provide background on the original intent and reception of each article, as well as a culminating chapter on an Implicit Relational Process Approach to Therapeiutic Action. Change in Psychotherapy presents the essential findings from an internationally acclaimed group of analysts in a single volume for the first time. In this, it is a truly groundbreaking work.
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