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The late Carl Whitaker's enormous insight and clinical expertise made themselves felt in virtually every area of psychotherapy. His most significant writings are collected in this volume.
List of contents
Foreword, Preface, PART ONE: BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF CARL WHITAKER, MD PART TWO: PSYCHOTHERAPY My Philosophy of Psychotherapy; Three Types of Craziness; The Psychotherapeutic Impasse with John Warkentin and Nan Johnson; Guest Editorial: The Impasse; The Administrative Ending in Psychotherapy The Use of Aggression in Psychotherapy Training for the Unreality Experience; The Role of Silence in Brief Psychotherapy with Jerman W. Rose, Frank N. Geiser and Nan Johnson; Communication in Brief Psychotherapy with the Nonpsychotic Patient; First-Stage Techniques in the Experiential Psychotherapy of Chronic Schizophrenic Patients with Richard E. Felder, Thomas P. Malone and John Warkentin; Preverbal Aspects of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics; The Contribution of Individual and Family Therapy to the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia; PART THREE: TRAINING AND GROWTH OF THE THERAPIST The Ongoing Training of the Psychotherapist; Multiple Therapy and Its Variations; The Commitment to Intimacy; When Not to Share Yourself with a Patient Group Encounter: The Now Self of Me Letter: Sauna Bath and Snow Plunge PART FOUR: MARITAL THERAPY Functions of Marriage; Psychotherapy with Couples; Psychotherapy of Married Couples; Psychotherapy of Marital Conflict; A Re-evaluation of "Psychiatric Help" when Divorce Impends with H. Milton PART FIVE: FAMILY THERAPY Objectives of Family Treatment; The Technique of Family Therapy; Countertransference in the Family Treatment of Schizophrenia with Richard E. Felder and John Warkentin; Acting Out in Family Psychotherapy; The Symptomatic Adolescent-An AWOL Family Member; Power Politics of Family Psychotherapy; Symbolic Sex in Family Therapy; Process Techniques of Family Therapy with the collaboration of Augustus Y. Napier; A Family Is a Four-Dimensional Relationship; The Hindrance of Theory in Clinical Work Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy with David V. Keith PART SIX: GATHERINGS ENVOI
About the author
John R. Neill, University of Kentucky College of Medicine. David P. Kniskern, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Summary
The late Carl Whitaker's enormous insight and clinical expertise made themselves felt in virtually every area of psychotherapy. His most significant writings are collected in this volume.
