Brief Strategic Solution-Oriented Therapy of Phobic and Obsessive Disorders by Giorgio Nardone

Brief Strategic Solution-Oriented Therapy of Phobic and Obsessive Disorders by Giorgio Nardone

This book is about psychological disorders based on irrational fears - those apparently unmotivated, paralyzing, panic-filled, gutwrenching fears whose multiplicity and diversity are barely contained in the diagnoses phobias and obsessional disorders. The author, worldrenowned therapist Giorgio Nardone, offers a brief (usually less than 20 session) treatment method that leads to a change in the interpersonal, cognitive, and emotional organizations underlying these painful and all too-common problems. Therapists using a strategic framework focus on reframing patients' representations of self and other, and on changing the relational patterns that sustain fearful perceptions. Based on extensive research and illustrated with in-depth clinical examples, this book offers hope to those whose lives have been unnecessarily limited by their phobias and obsessions. Strategic brief therapy, as developed by John H. Weakland, Paul Watzlawick, and Richard Fisch, is based on a very simple idea problems are accidentally maintained by our repeated, failed attempts at solving them. In this book, Giorgio Nardone uses the strategic brief therapy lens to focus on how particular troubles are accidentally maintained and how therapist and client can overcome them. The follow- up (79 percent resolved and 7 percent much improved) certainly points to the efficacy of Nardone's approach. Giorgio Nardone's strategic psychotherapy model shows specific originality and an innovative quality compared to other brief therapy models. Phobic and obsessive disorders are difficult to treat. Nardone's model achieves rapid symptom remission even in severe forms of panic, fear, and phobia. This book is a very practical manual for professionals because it guides the reader clearly through the different stages of therapy and presents treatment protocol as well as concrete examples of results. A study of two clinical cases, complete with a transcript of therapy, not only enhances comprehension of the model but underscores the brilliance of the

Offers a brief treatment method for phobic and obsessive disorders consisting of usually less than 20 sessions, focusing on reframing patients' representations of self and other and on changing the relational patterns that sustain fearful perceptionsIncludes lengthy clinical examples of a case of agoraphobia and a case of phobic- obsessive compulsions. * Booknews *

Professor Giorgio Nardone is the director of the Centro di Terapia Strategica (Strategic Therapy Center), the only official Representative for Italy of Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, California, and of the Italian Post Graduate School of Brief Strategic Therapy in Arezzo, officially acknowledged by Murst (D.M. 16/11/2000). He is also professor of Brief Psychotherapy at the Post Graduate School of Clinical Psychology, University of Siena, Italy. With a Ph.D. in Educational Science from the University of Siena, he holds the title of specialist in Clinical Psychology at the School of Medicine, University of Siena. Dr. Nardone has published numerous articles and several books translated in many foreign languages.

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ISBN 13	9781568218045
ISBN 10	1568218044
Title	Brief Strategic Solution-Oriented Therapy of Phobic and Obsessive Disorders
Author	Giorgio Nardone
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
Year published	1977-07-07
Number of pages	188
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