How Long to Read Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy

How Long Does it Take to Read Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy by Mary E. Connors

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Traditionally, psychoanalytically oriented clinicians have eschewed a direct focus on symptoms, viewing it as superficial turning away from underlying psychopathology. But this assumption is an artifact of a dated classical approach; it should be reexamined in the light of contemporary relational thinking. So argues Mary Connors in Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy, an integrative project that describes cognitive-behavioral techniques that have been demonstrated to be empirically effective and may be productively assimilated into dynamic psychotherapy. What is the warrant for symptom-focused interventions in psychodynamic treatment? Connors argues that the deleterious impact of symptoms on the patient's physical and emotional well being often impedes psychodynamic engagement. Symptoms associated with addictive disorders, eating disorders, OCD, and posttraumatic stress receive special attention. With patients suffering from these and other symptoms, Connors finds, specific cognitive-behavior techniques may relieve symptomatic distress and facilitate a psychodynamic treatment process, with its attentiveness to the therapeutic relationship and the analysis of transference-countertransference. Connors' model of integrative psychotherapy, which makes cognitive-behavioral techniques responsive to a comprehensive understanding of symptom etiology, offers a balanced perspective that attends to the relational embeddedness of symptoms without skirting the therapeutic obligation to alleviate symptomatic distress. In fact, Connors shows, active techniques of symptom management are frequently facilitative of treatment goals formulated in terms of relational psychoanalysis, self psychology, intersubjectivity theory, and attachment research. A discerning effort to enrich psychodynamic treatment without subverting its conceptual ground, Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy is a bracing antidote to the timeworn mindset that makes a virtue of symptomatic suffering.

How long is Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy?

Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy by Mary E. Connors is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy aloud.

What Reading Level is Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy?

Symptom-Focused Dynamic Psychotherapy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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