Breaking Through the "Impossible" Cases in Psychotherapy

Author: Duncan
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: In counseling and therapy, what is meant by "impossible"? What causes "impossible"? Can we turn "impossible" into "possible"? This book answers all the above questions. In the process of thinking about and treating the impossible, we attempt to understand what can help us find the "possibility" of positive therapeutic outcomes. Since words are indeed important, we chose to describe a situation that appears difficult to handle but has the opportunity for success. The word is "unworkable," in the "Merriam-Webster University Dictionary," "unworkable" is defined as "the current methods cannot achieve results." This word summarizes our perspective on impossibility. The clients and their difficulties are not impossible to treat. They seem impossible to treat because well-intentioned therapeutic processes have become obstacles to successful treatment. When "the current methods" shift from theory-oriented to client-oriented, the possibility arises. This book details how to treat under a client-oriented approach. "Breaking Through the 'Impossible' Cases in Psychotherapy" clearly explains how to effectively treat clients who have had negative experiences in past psychotherapy. This book primarily focuses on how to work with challenging cases, with its theoretical concepts lying in the deliberate expansion of known therapeutic factors, which are detailed in the book "Breaking Free from Babylon: Towards an Integrated Language for Psychotherapy Practice." We view "Breaking Through the 'Impossible' Cases in Psychotherapy" as a companion to "Breaking Free from Babylon," while fully recognizing that each book has its own unique characteristics.