Craft and spirit : a guide to the exploratory psychotherapies / Joseph D. Lichtenberg.

In Craft and Spirit, Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of exploratory psychotherapy, by which he means the creative skill - even artistry - that mobilizes the spirit of inquiry in therapist and patient and sustains it over the course of psychotherapy. He expatiates on this craft as it pertains...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Lichtenberg, Joseph D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hillsdale, NJ : The Analytic Press, 2005.
Series:Psychoanalytic inquiry book series ; v. 20.
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Table of Contents:
  • A facilitating environment
  • Sensing into the mind-states of another
  • Affects and the pathway to motivation
  • "The message contains the message" : opening communication to its fullest revelation
  • Filling the narrative envelope
  • "The wearing of attributions" : a guideline for therapists to discover who they have come to be for their patients
  • Model scenes : a guide to bringing the theater of the mind onto the patient-therapist stage
  • How to respond to a message that indicates there is something a patient doesn't want himself, his therapist, or both to know
  • The therapist speaks
  • Evaluating progress
  • Coda.