Main description:

Comprehensive, systematic, and balanced, Systems of Psychotherapy uses a wealth of clinical cases to help readers understand a wide variety of psychotherapies - including psychodynamic, existential, experiential, interpersonal, exposure, behavioral, cognitive, third wave, systemic, multicultural, and integrative. The ninth edition of this landmark text thoroughly analyzes 15 leading systems of psychotherapy and briefly surveys another 32, providing students
and practitioners with a broad overview of the discipline.

The book explores each system's theory of personality, theory of psychopathology, and resulting therapeutic process and therapy relationship. Through these explorations the authors clearly demonstrate how psychotherapy systems agree on the processes producing change while diverging on the elements in need of change. Additionally, the authors present cogent criticisms of each approach from cognitive-behavioral, psychoanalytic, humanistic, cultural, and integrative perspectives. This ninth
edition features updated meta-analytic reviews of the effectiveness of each system, new sections on Lacanian analysis, mentalization therapy, and psychotherapy with gender nonconforming people, as well as new sections and updates throughout the text.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Defining and Comparing the Psychotherapies
Chapter 2 Psychoanalytic Therapies
Chapter 3 Psychodynamic Therapies
Chapter 4 Existential Therapies
Chapter 5 Person-Centered Therapies
Chapter 6 Experiential Therapies
Chapter 7 Interpersonal Therapies
Chapter 8 Exposure Therapies
Chapter 9 Behavior Therapies
Chapter 10 Cognitive Therapies
Chapter 11 Third-Wave Therapies
Chapter 12 Systemic Therapies
Chapter 13 Gender-Sensitive Therapies
Chapter 14 Multicultural Therapies
Chapter 15 Constructivist Therapies
Chapter 16 Integrative Therapies
Chapter 17 Comparative Therapies
Chapter 18 The Future of Psychotherapy
Appendix A: Meta-Analysis
Appendix B: An Alternative Table of Contents
References
Name Index
Subject Index