The Technique of Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice. Introduction. Affective Motivation and Adaption. The Therapist's Task. Inferring the Patient's Plan from the First Few Sessions of Therapy. Testing. Interpretation. The Therapist's Use of Dreams. Part II: Research and a Comparison of Theories. The Empirical Basis of the Theory. A Comparison of the Present Theory with Freud's 1911?1915 Theory and with His Late Theories. A Comparison of the Present Theory with Other Current Theories. Appendix: List of Case References. References. Index.
Joseph Weiss is a training analyst at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, and Co-director (with Harold Sampson) of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group. He received his baccalaureate degree from Harvard, his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati Medical School, and was trained in psychoanalysis at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where he became a training analyst in 1962. He is also currently in private practice in San Francisco.
Patients come to psychotherapy hoping to get better and look to
therapists to help them feel safe by disconfirming conscious
pathogenic beliefs. Here we have what seems like a remarkably
simple idea. But what is revolutionary and most startling, Weiss's
theory has been empirically tested and validated. Weiss ranges from
his broad conceptualization of motivation and pathogenesis to the
microanalysis of the clinical exchange. He demonstrates the impact
of psychotherapy is in the effect of interventions, not on the
intent or purity of technique. Reading HOW PSYCHOTHERAPY WORKS is a
corrective educational experience. --Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D.,
Washington, D.C.
This exciting and original book is a veritable treasure-house of
practical understanding and clinical wisdom gained from Dr. Weiss's
decades of psychoanalytic experience and amply supported by an
impressive body of systematic research on the theories he has
advanced. The lucidity and readability of this work is outstanding
and should make this an excellent basic text for beginners in the
field, as well as seasoned mental health practitioners.
According to Weiss's therapy, psychopathology stems from pathogenic
beliefs formed mainly in childhood from traumatic relationships.
Weiss's theory of therapy and technique follows directly from his
concept of psychopathology. He views psychotherapy as a process in
which the patient works to disconfirm his pathogenic beliefs with
the help of the therapist. Patients are powerfully motivated to
disconfirm these beliefs because they are maladaptive and grim, and
they produce much mental pain. Weiss conceptualizes the therapist's
basic task as being one of helping patients to disprove their
pathogenic beliefs, particularly their unconscious pathogenic
beliefs, and to help patients pursue the goals that have been
blocked by these overwhelmingly disturbing ideas. --Theo. L.
Dorpat, M.D., F.A.P.A., Seattle, Washington
In HOW PSYCHOTHERAPY WORKS, Joseph Weiss offers an experience-near,
relational, and rational approach to psychoanalytic therapy that is
based on empirical research into the therapeutic process. A breath
of fresh air in a field dominated by unsupported doctrine, this
excellent text will serve as an invaluable guide to all students of
psychotherapy. --Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., Training and
Supervising Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
....This highly original book is recommended reading for mental
health professionals at all levels of training. --Theo L. Dorpat in
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
This book is recommended for educators and practitioners wanting to
understand and make use of a psychoanalytic approach with clients.
--David A. Jenkins, Ph.D., The American Journal of Family
Therapy
This book summarizes decades of clinical teaching, research, and
study in a form that is readily accessible to the working
psychoanalyst....The body of work presented is important and should
be taken seriously. --Stephen F. Bauer, M.D., in Psychoanalytic
Books
This original and exciting book on psychotherapy process and
technique should become, in a short time, the most outstanding book
in the field of psychoanalytical technique and process....The
readability of this eminently practical volume makes it required
reading for mental health professionals at all levels of training
and experience. --Theo L. Dorpat, M.D., in The Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy Review
- ...original and exciting....The most outstanding book in the
field of psychoanalytical technique and process....Required reading
for mental health professionals at all levels of training and
experience. --Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, 8/22/1993ƒƒ
....This highly original book is recommended reading for mental
health professionals at all levels of training. --The
Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 8/22/1993ƒƒ Attractive and logically
organized. It includes a feature rarely seen in texts discussing
psychotherapy technique: empirical data supportive of the author's
theories and technical prescriptions....An excellent book that
meets its objectives and that will be quite useful both to
therapists in training and experienced clinicians. --Doody's Annual
Health Sciences Book Review, 8/22/1993
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