Psychotherapy with Impossible Cases The

This book, a companion to the authors' Escape from Babel, describes therapy with a number of patients who had defeated numerous clinicians and become "veterans" of the system. Using a flexible approach that emphasizes relationship, hope, and a plan for the future, the authors turn these cases around, setting the clients on a path of independence and health.

Preface

ix

SECTION 1: EXPERIENTIAL AND EMPIRICAL INFLUENCES

1

(34)

CHAPTER 1 Changing the Rules of Impossibility

3

(19)

CHAPTER 2 Accommodating Therapy to the Client's Frame of Reference: The Empirical Argument

22

(13)

SECTION II: CLINICAL METHODS

35

(54)

CHAPTER 3 Working with Impossibility: Therapist Considerations

37

(13)

CHAPTER 4 Conversations with Impossibility: Making the Impossible Possible

50

(22)

CHAPTER 5 Exploring, Discovering, and Validating: The Case of Natalie

72

(17)

SECTION III: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS

89

(100)

CHAPTER 6 Case Example: Dissociative Identity Disorder or "A Collage of Gifts"

91

(31)

CHAPTER 7 Case Example: Delusional Disorder or "Surviving Until Retirement"

122

(32)

CHAPTER 8 Case Example: Borderline Personality Disorder or "What's Wrong with Me?"

154

(35)

SECTION IV: EPILOGUE

189

(20)

CHAPTER 9 Impracticability: Taking a Different Path

191

(18)

References

209

(6)

Index

215

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Psychotherapy with "Impossible" Cases The Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans

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