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 | | Current Psychotherapies by Raymond J. Corsini, Danny Wedding ISBN-10: 9780495097143 ISBN-10: 0-495-09714-4 ISBN-13: 9780495097143 ISBN-13: 978-0-495-09714-3 Paperback 2007-02-27 Brooks Cole Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Used in top counseling, psychology, and social work programs, CURRENT PSYCHOTHERAPIES is the ideal resource to not only help you excel in the course, but also to learn, compare, and apply the major systems of psychotherapy in a way that will be meaningful in your own practice. Each contributor is either an originator or a leading proponent of one of the systems, and each presents the basic principles of the system in a clear and straightforward manner, discussing it in the context of the other systems. Theory chapters include a case example that guides you through the problem, evaluation, treatment, and follow-up process. Accompanying CURRENT PSYCHOTHERAPIES is CASE STUDIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY, each case demonstrates the basic techniques and methods of the theory being illustrated. This edition retains classic case studies by Harold Mosak, Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, Arnold Lazarus, and Peggy Papp. | ||
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No great for full reviews This book is o.k. but no where near the indepth I thought it may have been and frankly a little disappointed for my professor who recommended it :/ | ||
Awful book... This book was required for my class, but I couldn't stand it. We never did use it for anything helpful and it was just so hard to read through. If you are learning psychotherapies and you have a choice, choose a different book. | ||
Buyer Beware! This was advertised as an 8th edition book and I was sent the 7th edition. I am now having to purchase the 8th edition. This was over a $100 mistake...I am now having to go through Amazon to try to get reimbursed. | ||
Excellent Summaries of Various Therapies I found this book at a thrift store and liked the summaries of the various therapies that I found. Many of them were short and to the point, and said everything more concisely than some books did with more pages and words. I must admit that I did not read about all the therapies in the book, but only the ones that I liked. There is a section on the "Focusing" work of Gendlin that is excellent and gives some detail not found in his classic book in the field. While it is only a few pages long, I found them worth reading and added to my understanding of his therapy, which is the basis of much process oriented therapy to this day, as well as a meditation tool. I think the reason why the article added to the understanding is because the article is historically later than his book and he is giving his later reflections. All in all, it is a good reference book. | ||
Best Book for Clinical Psychology Course This is, by far, my favorite book for use in teaching a Clinical Psychology course. The most appealing component of this book is that it uses theoretical formulators or significant contributors to the perspectives presented(ie., Beck, Ellis, Rollo & May, etc.) as original authors whenever possible. There are, unfortunately, some problematics in the chapters written by others (e.g., the author of the classical psychoanalysis chapter indicating, naively, that Freud's theory was deterministic - ignoring, completely, Freud's more subjective and telic explanations of psychological phenomena and that his deterministic perspectives were more add-ons to his final theory to appease his more biologically minded contemporaries...see my website: [...]). Still, even with such provisos, I recommend this book as a good introduction to theories/perspectives in clinical psychology/psychotherapy. For a better, more comprehensive reading of the grand personality theories and psychotherapies, I HIGHLY recommend you purchase a copy of Rychlak's, _Introduction to Personality and Psychotherapy_. | ||