Changing expectations : a key to effective psychotherapy

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Changing expectations : a key to effective psychotherapy

Irving Kirsch

Brooks/Cole, c1990

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Note

Bibliography: p. 201-220

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book should be of interest to a resource text for practitioners in psychotherapy and counselling.

Table of Contents

Part One: Response expectancy theory. Expectancy, experience and behavior. The power of placebos. Psychotherapy and the placebo effect. Part Two: Specific treatment for specific problems. Systematic desensitization: the first specific psychotherapy. When there is nothing to fear but fear itself. Being depressed about depression. A clinician's guide to expectancy modification. Part Three: Hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Demystifying hypnosis. An expectancy model of hypnosis. Hypnotherapy: clinical applications of the expectancy model. Part Four: Causal mechanisms. How expectancy produces change. Index.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA11471884
  • ISBN
    • 0534126480
  • LCCN
    89035604
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Pacific Grove, Calif.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 231 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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