Search Results for: Individual and Family Therapy

Object Relations:A Dynamic Bridge Between Individual and Family Therapy

The concepts presented here draw on the richness of psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on early development and conflict, and the dramatic findings of family therapy, which have concentrated on here-and-now interaction. A scientific basis for theory and treatment is presented that integrates these two approaches through the use of object relations theory. This integration will …

Family and Marital Therapy Combined with Individual Psychotherapy

The family is the link between every individual and the larger society. Therefore, physicians and psychiatrists must consider this unit not only for therapeutic reasons, but also because social and preventive medicine and psychiatry must focus on the family as the relevant basic system. (30 pp.)

Self and Object Intertwined

Fundamentally, patients seek psychotherapy because of troubles in relating. Such diverse therapies as individual psychotherapy, group therapy, family and marital therapy, sex therapy, and psychoanalysis are about difficulties in relating. These psychotherapies are therefore most usefully constructed out of theories that put relationships at the center, theories that help us to understand the encounter between patient and therapist, which is the crucible of change …

Refinding the Object and Reclaiming the Self

Refinding the Object and Reclaiming the Self is a groundbreaking study of the growth of the self out of the mutuality that lies at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. Applying an object relations perspective to individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Dr. David Scharff constructs a rich theory of the self derived from individual, family, and …

The Behavioral Psychotherapy of Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is a disorder of uncertain etiology which responds to psychological treatments. A highly individualized treatment program using techniques of behavior therapy is indicated and we consider family therapy essential both in the immediate and long-term management of patients. It is essential to provide maintenance therapy for at least five years consisting of an …

Vita-Erg Therapy

The basic psychotic process consists of the withdrawal from reality and the creation instead of hallucinatory distortion of actuality as well as adopting illusory defenses. Vita-Erg Therapy consists of a life setting in which patients are viewed and treated as persons, rather than individuals to be cared for, protected, directed, and served as though they …

School-Based Psychotherapy

School-Based Psychotherapy is treatment delivered to teenagers by mental health professionals in the school. Individual, group, and family therapy are all available in the school setting. Mental health staff have access to firsthand observations of their clients in a variety of settings, and can work not only to modify the client’s maladaptive behavior but also …

Multiple Therapy

Multiple Therapy refers to the multiplicity of relationships possible when two therapists, preferably a man and woman, are affectively (emotionally) and interdependently involved together in individual, conjoint, family, or group therapy. (11 pp.)

Integrative Psychotherapy

Integrative Psychotherapy is an approach to psychotherapy that integrates and synthesizes systems — humanistic, behavioral, psychodynamic, and spiritual approaches — to psychotherapy. The goal of Integrative Psychotherapy is to facilitate an individual’s growth toward becoming a balanced, holistic, integrated individual responsible for his life experiences or a family’s and couple’s movement toward becoming a functioning, …