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Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making Sense of People's Problems

By Lucy Johnstone , Rudi Dallos

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2006
ISBN
158391899X, 9781583918999, 9780203087268
LCC
BF38.5 .J64 2006
Open Library ID
OL3404096M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1811494 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
260\260
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2010-10-03 22:52:24

Description

I do like this book quite a lot! It follows two cases through the entire text, one child and one adult case, and explains them through the lenses of the major theoretical schools of thought in psychotherapy, including cognitive-behavioral, systems and psychodynamic psychology. I like also that newer, less traditional models are presented, for example, social constructionist and social inequalities approaches. There is also a chapter on integrative case formulation. My only complaint is that the chapter on psychodynamic case formulation is rather scant and narrow, focusing on Malan's Triangle of Conflict; it would have been beneficial for them to draw upon a dialog about Fred Pine's (1990) synthesis of the 4 primary psychodynamic schools -- Freudian Drive Psychology, Ego Psychology, Object Relations and Self Psychology. All in all though, it is a very good book and I have begun requiring it for my doctoral students in their psychotherapy courses and seminars.

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