Research Catalog

Title

• Redecision therapy : a brief, action-oriented approach / edited by Carolyn E. Lennox.

Publication

Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, c1997.

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Additional Authors

Lennox, Carolyn.

Description

xxii, 313 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

• Redecision therapy has roots in transactional analysis, as originated by Eric Berne, and Gestalt therapy, as developed by Fritz and Laura Perls. The action-oriented treatment model created by Bob and Mary Goulding in the 1960s is built around contracting for change, insisting on a language of self-responsibility, enacting change within the therapy session, and encouraging action outside the therapy session. Editor Carolyn Lennox characterizes the redecision therapist as a director in an improvisational theater. Guided by the client's personal contract for change, the therapist helps the client select and rewrite old scripts in which he or she was cast as victim. By keeping the dialogue moving and assisting the client in confronting negative messages, the therapist supports revision of the last act so that the self can be experienced as triumphant protagonist and the victory can be carried over into everyday life.
• The book's thoroughly accessible approach to brief, action-oriented therapy will be welcomed by students and practitioners alike as what Dr. Lennox gracefully terms "teachable and learnable magic."

Subject

• Psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy, Brief > methods
• Transactional Analysis
• Transactional analysis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Michael F. Hoyt -- 1. Introduction: Redecision Therapy, A Brief Therapy Model / Carolyn E. Lennox -- 2. Contracting for Change / Julia Lacy Baird -- 3. Impasses: Accessing, Experiencing, and Resolving / Caroline Avery-Dahl -- 4. The Treatment of Lethal Ideation / Denton L. Roberts -- 5. Childhood Scenes in Redecision Therapy / Mary McClure Goulding -- 6. The Importance of Saying Goodbye / Charles F. Vorkoper -- 7. Accessing the Natural Child as the Key to Redecision Therapy / Vann S. Joines -- 8. Using Redecision Therapy in Groups / Eugene M. Kerfoot -- 9. Treating Depression / Curtis A. Steele and Nancy Porter-Steele -- 10. The Treatment of Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia / Dean S. Janoff -- 11. The Treatment of Bulimia / Linda Carmicle -- 12. The Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder / Vern Masse -- 13. The Abusive Spouse / James K. Speer -- 14. Working with Children and Adolescents / James R. Allen and Barbara Ann Allen.

ISBN

0765700433 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96041624^

OCLC

35599347

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library