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List of contents
Foreword -- Introduction -- Background Perspectives -- The goals of self-processing therapy -- The evolution to self-processing -- Communication: Listening and Formulating -- The surface message -- The implications of manifest contents -- Symbols and isolated encoded meanings -- Trigger decoding -- The Techniques of Self-Processing -- The Modes of Self-Processing Therapy -- The frame of the self-processing class -- Initiating the self-processing class -- The first class -- The focus on resistances -- The origination narrative -- Guided associations -- Self-indicators and triggers -- Linking triggers to themes -- The self-processing tutorial and personal self-processing
About the author
Robert Langs, M.D., is well known as the author of many books on the subject of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, including 'The Technique of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy' (2 volumes), 'Psychotherapy: A Basic Text' , 'A Primer of Psychotherapy ' and 'Decoding Your Dreams'. He is currently Executive Director at the Program for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Beth Israel Medical Center, New York; Clinical Professor with the Department of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine, New York; and Visiting Clinical Investigator at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York.
Summary
This book presents some uncommon lines of clinical observation and thought that hopefully will shed new light on the work and thinking of the full range of helping professionals. It provides the insights and techniques that characterize the empowered form of psychotherapy.
