Unifying Psychotherapy

The reader is about to encounter a fresh, challenging, and indeed bold treatise on not only the current status of psychotherapy, but also the future of psychotherapyÖ.You're in for a rich amalgam of updated biopsychosocially based clinical theory that integrates the biological, psychological, and cultural realms; overarching summaries of research across a number of sciences and clinical disciplines; wide-ranging reviews of individual, couples, group, and family psychotherapy; and ultimately, I think, an intellectually stimulating and compelling argument for a unifying paradigm for psychotherapy. -From the Introduction by Allan N. Schore, PhD UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Magnavita and Anchin provide an excellent review of contemporary research to demonstrate that each of these domains influences both the development of personality (or pathology) and the response to treatment... [They] offer conceptual tools to inform a truly multiparadigmatic approach... the scholarship is succinct but well supported by broad and up-to-date citations... Magnavita and Anchin are telling us to think about the whole person... The central contribution is that they are telling us how to organize and manage all the information available, and they are trying to construct systematic conceptual tools to guide us... Thoughtful clinicians at any stage of their careers will find that reading this book results in rethinking their clinical work with deeper engagement and surprising new insights. It is highly recommended."--PsycCRITIQUES "I very much hope that Magnavita and Anchin's book can influence the current psychotherapy research and treatment... gather together core ideas from a wide range of therapy researchers. In this goal, Unifying Psychotherapy does succeed. The cocktail party does bring together a broad range of differing perspectives. What does bringing these perspectives together accomplish? In resolution of conflicts, a summary of the concerns of all of the involved parties can serve as a springboard to propel a launch forward into new solutions and new ideas for how to proceed. Magnavita and Anchin's compendium will hopefully propel the field of psychotherapy forward, embracing a new degree of inclusion of couple and family treatment into psychotherapy research, engendering new understandings of what makes therapy effective, and encouraging new intervention ideas for accomplishing that goal."--Journal of Psychotherapy Integration With over 1,000 approaches to psychotherapy, many of which have few substantive differences, how...