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3 eBooks available.

Supportive-Expressive Therapy of Cocaine Abuse

Techniques that cultivate a capacity to experience and that generate curiosity and concern for the patient become particularly vital with this population. Such techniques and shifts in emphases will be discussed in detail.(69 pp.)

Supportive-Expressive Dynamic Psychotherapy of Depression

The general goals for SE dynamic psychotherapy with depressed patients:

1. To establish a relationship of rapport and trust—the supportive component of SE dynamic treatment. Paying attention to the patient’s expressed goals is very important in establishing rapport and trust and leads to a helpful therapeutic alliance.

2. To use rapport and trust to develop an atmosphere in which patients can express what they are thinking and learn to understand what they have expressed—the expressive component of SE dynamic treatment. Understanding can be increased by interpretations that are focused on the central relationship pattern and the conflicts within it.

3. To facilitate maintenance of the gains of the therapy during the treatment period and after its termination.

(53 pp.)

Short-Term Supportive-Expressive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

The main techniques are: being sensitive in allowing the patient to form a helping alliance, formulate and respond about the central relationship patterns, understand and respond about where the symptom fits into the pattern, attend to and respond to concerns about getting involved in the therapy and then separating, responses should be timed in relation to the patient’s awareness, frame the symptoms as problem-solving attempts and interventions should be limited in complexity and length. (47 pp.)