The Multiple Facets of Therapeutic Transactions
Excerpts from reviews
Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D.
Taking the infant-parent dyad as the basic paradigm for theory building,
this book offers an innovative understanding of psychological functioning
and its implications for therapeutic intervention. Beautifully illustrated
with clinical examples, the book builds much needed bridges between different
developmewntal stages and across theoretical perspectives.
Erika Fromm, Ph.D.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, rather challenging and
theoretical section, the authors develop an integrated multifaceted
theory of psychological functioning. In the second, more elemental part,
they describe simple and very teachable methods of therapeutic
interaction. A clinical case presentation rounds out the book. This is an
extraordinarily interesting volume. The first part will be fascinating to
highly experienced psychotherapists and the second part very helpful to
beginners.
Bennett L. Leventhal, M.D.
The authors have brought together multiple theoretical perspectives that are
conceptualized as facets of psychological functioning: the
interpersonal, developmental, characterologic, and intrapsychic. Using the
infant and parent as the basic model for theory building, they illustrate
the universal applicability of their model to the human being developing
and changing over time. Their theory is also applicable across degrees of
psychopathology. The authors examine the ways in which particular
theoretical orientations prompt particular therapeutic transactions and
how correlations between theoretical orientations and therapeutic
transactions can be identified and classified in technical interventions.
The authors call these therapeutic interventions therapeutic bids (i.e.,
efforts to support, encourage, bolster, teach, probe, disengage, interpret, or
contain, depending on the clinician's understanding of which facet the
patient has engaged at a particular time). These bids were identified in
the course of observing parents' positive transactions with their children
and those of clinicians with children and parents at the Parent-Infant Development Service, founded by Chaya H. Roth, Ph.D., in the
Department of Psychiatry at the University fo Chicago.
It became clear that comparatively few therapeutic bids were used to
address the psychological facets of human behavior. In describing what is
most simple (therapeutic bids) in psychotherapy and what is most difficult
(conceptualization drawn from a theory of multifaceted psychological
functioning), The Multiple Facets of Therapeutic Transactions will be
helpful to experienced clinicians who practice and teach psychotherapy,
and it will advance the professional development and clinical skills of
trainees who seek a conceptual and practical framework in which to select,
implement, and evaluate their therapeutic behavior and the understanding
of patients.
About the authors
Chaya H. Roth, Ph.D.
...is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the
University of Chicago. Dr. Roth has extensive training in child development
and psychoanalysis. She founded the Parent-Infant Development Service at the
University of Chicago
Department of Psychiatry in 1979 and developed the ideas presented in this
book based on the parent-infant and child relationship. Her continuing
clinical research efforts focus on empirically delineating the nature of
therapeutic transactions.
Steven D. Kulb, Psy.D.
...is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He received his
post graduate training in Child Psychiatry at the Parent-Infant Development
Service at the University of Chicago. Dr.
Kulb is affiliated with the
Rock Creek Center, a psychiatric facility in Lemont, IL, and is a consulting psychologist for the
One-to-One Learning Center in Northfield, IL. He has a private practice in
the psychodiagnostic assessment and psychotherapy of children, adolescents,
and adults in Lake Forest, IL.
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