Description
To help their patients, clinicians must make accurate diagnoses and devise effective treatment plans. These plans often involve psychotherapy with goals that include symptom reduction, the prevention of relapse, and helping patients recognize and remove impediments to more effective functioning. Formulation as a Basis for Planning Psychotherapy Treatment presents a formulation system that combines concepts derived from psychodynamic, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, and family system approaches. In a step-by-step manner, illustrated by plentiful case examples, this useful guide shows psychiatrists, residents in psychiatry and psychology, social workers, and marriage and family counselors how to plan treatment after the initial diagnosis. After an overview of psychological change processes, each of the five steps in the formulation process are covered systematically. Case formulation is begun by the careful selection and description of a patient's symptoms and problems. This information is then grouped into states of mind, an approach that allows for multiple presentations of a patient, avoids static descriptions of observations, and places many observable features into meaningful clusters of co-occurrence. Subsequent chapters explain how all of this information can be used to focus the treatment and identify defensive controls that may interfere with treatment. The author describes how to infer deep beliefs about the self in terms of views of relationships with others. The book teaches how to formulate plans for interventions during psychotherapy.
Formulation as a Basis for Psychotherapy by Dr. Mardi Horowitz, our most eminent psychoanalytic clinician scholar, is a unique and extremely creative approach to a crucial aspect of doing psychotherapy -- making accurate diagnoses and effective treatment plans. He demonstrates in a cognitive-psychodynamic synthesis how to use his 'states of mind' concepts to achieve effective and powerful change in personality disorders. This book will be highly useful to both trainees and practitioners in the entire mental health field. Robert A. Nemiroff, M.D., Clinical Professor and Director, Residency Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California I heartily recommend this book: it is lucid and clear, the ideas are systematically conveyed through interesting and vivid case examples, and the method of formulation will help clinicians at every level of experience from beginner to expert. It is a truly integrative work, bringing a tone of scholarship and convergence into an area that has previously been both murky and disputed. Marc Jacobs, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Residency Program, Department of Psychiatry and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California-San Francisco This intellectually challenging work really does justice to the complexities of therapy and formulation. Dr. Horowitz's approach to formulation is uniquely flexible, in that it provides tools to start formulating a case right away, soon after meeting a new patient, but also remains useful along every step of the way. As therapy becomes more complicated, his model offers more and more layers of tools. I highly recommend Dr. Horowitz's book to new and experienced therapists alike. New therapists will learn a solid and stimulating approach to understanding patients. Experienced therapists will find their ideas and working styles enhanced in rich and intellectually rewarding ways. Adriana Feder, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Assistant Director, Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Program, Department of Psychiatry, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California This book will be an excellent teaching source for work with trainees because it goes step by step and describes the markers at each decision point. I look forward to its publication. Nancy Kaltreider, M.D., Director of Medical Student Education, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California
About the Author
Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Center on Stress and Personality at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California.
Book Information
ISBN 9780880487498
Author Mardi J. Horowitz
Format Hardback
Page Count 144
Imprint American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Publisher American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Weight(grams) 390g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 16mm
Formulation as a Basis for Psychotherapy by Dr. Mardi Horowitz, our most eminent psychoanalytic clinician scholar, is a unique and extremely creative approach to a crucial aspect of doing psychotherapy -- making accurate diagnoses and effective treatment plans. He demonstrates in a cognitive-psychodynamic synthesis how to use his 'states of mind' concepts to achieve effective and powerful change in personality disorders. This book will be highly useful to both trainees and practitioners in the entire mental health field. Robert A. Nemiroff, M.D., Clinical Professor and Director, Residency Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California I heartily recommend this book: it is lucid and clear, the ideas are systematically conveyed through interesting and vivid case examples, and the method of formulation will help clinicians at every level of experience from beginner to expert. It is a truly integrative work, bringing a tone of scholarship and convergence into an area that has previously been both murky and disputed. Marc Jacobs, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Residency Program, Department of Psychiatry and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California-San Francisco This intellectually challenging work really does justice to the complexities of therapy and formulation. Dr. Horowitz's approach to formulation is uniquely flexible, in that it provides tools to start formulating a case right away, soon after meeting a new patient, but also remains useful along every step of the way. As therapy becomes more complicated, his model offers more and more layers of tools. I highly recommend Dr. Horowitz's book to new and experienced therapists alike. New therapists will learn a solid and stimulating approach to understanding patients. Experienced therapists will find their ideas and working styles enhanced in rich and intellectually rewarding ways. Adriana Feder, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Assistant Director, Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Program, Department of Psychiatry, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California This book will be an excellent teaching source for work with trainees because it goes step by step and describes the markers at each decision point. I look forward to its publication. Nancy Kaltreider, M.D., Director of Medical Student Education, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California
About the Author
Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Center on Stress and Personality at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California.
Book Information
ISBN 9780880487498
Author Mardi J. Horowitz
Format Hardback
Page Count 144
Imprint American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Publisher American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Weight(grams) 390g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 16mm
