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About Psychotherapy Kindle Collection
The About Psychotherapy section of the All About Psychology website forms part of a wider initiative to make important, insightful and engaging psychology publications widely available. This particular Kindle collection consists of classic articles and book chapters about psychotherapy. The About Psychotherapy Kindle CollectionThe Processes of Therapy by Carl Rogers
Classic article from 1940 in which Carl Rogers outlines the conditions for successful psychotherapy. Namely; rapport, free expression of feeling on the part of the client, recognition and acceptance by the client of his spontaneous self, responsible choices, the gaining of insight through assimilated interpretation and independence with support. See following link for full details. Rational Psychotherapy and Individual Psychology by Albert Ellis
This classic article by Albert Ellis is one of the first published accounts of rational psychotherapy; a theory of personality and a system of therapeutic technique that would eventually develop into what is now known as rational emotive behavior therapy. In the course of this landmark paper Ellis introduces and expands upon his hypothesis that thinking represents the most important way in which human emotion is caused and controlled. He then goes on to outline the main points of agreement and disagreement between rational therapy and the individual Psychology of Alfred Adler. See following link for full details. Rational Psychotherapy and Individual Psychology Recollections of A Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: The Case of "Prisoner K" by Thomas Szasz
Originally published in 1959 as a contribution to a collection of case studies in counseling and psychotherapy, this is a fascinating account of a particular example of "psychoanalytic psychotherapy" undertaken by Thomas Szasz; who was soon to elevated into a position of international renown and controversy upon the publication of his classic text "The Myth of Mental Illness." A must read for anybody interested in the history and practice of psychotherapy. See following link for full details. Recollections of A Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: The Case of "Prisoner K" Psychotherapy As A Learning Process by Albert Bandura
Classic paper by eminent psychologist Albert Bandura exploring systematic attempts to apply principles of learning to the area of psychotherapy. Bandura begins this exploration by asking whether human behavior can be modified through psychological means and if so, what are the learning mechanisms that mediate behavior change? He then sets about discussing some of these learning mechanisms in turn i.e., counterconditioning, extinction, discrimination learning, methods of reward, punishment and social imitation. See following link for full details. Psychotherapy As A Learning Process Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy by Carl Rogers
This Carl Rogers classic is a must read for anybody interested in psychotherapy and counseling. In this landmark publication Carl Rogers outlines the origins of client-centered therapy, the process of client-centered therapy, the discovery and capacity of the client and the client-centered nature of the therapeutic relationship. See following link for full details. Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy Psychotherapy And The Placebo Effect by David Rosenthal & Jerome D. Frank
Originally published in 1956 this classic article describes the placebo effect, discuss some of its implications for the evaluation of psychotherapy, and make some recommendations concerning research design in psychotherapy based on these considerations. See following link for full details. Psychotherapy And The Placebo Effect The Problem of Psychotherapy by Laurance Shaffer
Originally presented in 1947 as the address of the President of the Division of Clinical and Abnormal Psychology, American Psychological Association; this landmark paper draws attention to issues relating to the nature of the therapeutic process within psychotherapy which are just as relevant today: How can we understand what takes place in the therapeutic interview? Why does it readjust the distressed person? Under what conditions is psychotherapy applicable? What techniques, applied in appropriately selected circumstances will produce predictable and effective results? Shaffer's central argument is that the psychologist's major problem with respect to therapy is not that of the professional conditions of practice, but is the problem of understanding what therapy is and does. See following link for full details. Hypnotherapy in Anxiety and Depression by Jerome M. Schneck
Originally published in 1959 as part of a collection of case studies in counseling and psychotherapy. Hypnotherapy in Anxiety and Depression Measurement of Personality and Behavior Change Following Psychotherapy by Melvin Zax & Armin Klein
Originally published in 1960 this article sets out to summarise and evaluate some of the approaches which have been used to deal with the problem of the criterion employed within evaluatory research in psychotherapy. See following link for full details. Measurement of Personality and Behavior Change Following Psychotherapy Content-Analysis Studies of Psychotherapy by Frank Auld & Edward Murray
This ground breaking article first published in 1955 attempts to review the considerable body of literature on content analysis of recorded psychotherapy interviews. The articles reviewed are organized within a series of key headings e.g., attitudes toward self, movement from problems to insight, differences between different therapies etc. Quite simply a must read for anybody interested in the history and practice of psychotherapy. See following link for full details. Content-Analysis Studies of Psychotherapy A Case of Pseudo-Neurotic Schizophrenia by Heinz Hafner
Originally published in 1959 as part of a collection of case studies in counseling and psychotherapy. In introducing this case the author notes that especially in the analysis of pseudo-neurotic schizophrenics, an attitude characterized by an ever-reliable presence and goodness of the therapist that gives security and warmth is required; and that this had to be established first in order to provide a key to the understanding of the case being presented. A Case of Pseudo-Neurotic Schizophrenia The Treatment of A Child and Family by Marcille H. Lakos & Nathan W. Akerman
Originally published in 1959 as part of a collection of case studies in counseling and psychotherapy, the authors note that their purpose is to describe the treatment of a disturbed child within the framework of a concomitant program of therapy. The Treatment of A Child and Family Intellectualizing Techniques in Psychotherapy by Ruth L. Munroe
Originally published in 1959 as part of a collection of case studies in counseling and psychotherapy, this particular offering was introduced by the author as follows: This contribution focuses on what I call "intellectualizing techniques." I mean here the use of "intellectualization" by the therapist as a conscious tool. He falls in with the patient's way of thinking, but is not the dupe of the patient's intellectualizing defenses. He uses the capacity of the patient to "think" and his wish to "understand" constructively within the therapeutic situation as a means of (a) building up the transference on a broad ego-syntonic level, (b) using this transference as the stabilizing background for the ups-and-downs of therapy, and (c) as security for relatively bold active interpretations, guarded by their "intellectualized" format. See following link for full details. Intellectualizing Techniques in Psychotherapy The Managing of Acting Out in a Borderline Personality by Don D. Jackson
Originally published in 1959 as a contribution to a collection of case studies in counseling and psychotherapy, this is the description of the intensive psychotherapy of a thirty-one-year-old housewife and mother. In introducing his patient the author notes that her chief complaints were periods of severe depression and lack of appetite with consequent weight loss and that questioning during the four preliminary, exploratory interviews revealed that she also suffered from severe headaches, insomnia, nearly total amenorrhea, cancerophobia, and frigidity. She was afraid to be alone day or night, and had made two serious suicide attempts-the last one a few weeks before therapy started. See following link for full details. The Managing of Acting Out in a Borderline Personality The Involvement of the Professional Therapist by Carl Whitaker, Thomas Malone & John Warkentin
Originally published in 1959 as part of a collection of case studies in counseling and psychotherapy. This particular contribution relates to the case of "Hilda" a thirty-year-old, married female with the chief complaints of repeated severe depressions and psychotic behavior. The Involvement of the Professional Therapist Principles of Directive Counseling and Psychotherapy by Frederick Thorne
Originally published in 1948, this classic article outlines the origins of directive psychotherapy and addresses some important terminological considerations. The author notes that the purpose of the paper is to review the basic principles of directive psychotherapy and to help formulate a comprehensive system of counseling and psychotherapy which would integrateand relate the positive values of newer viewpoints with traditional methods. Principles of Directive Counseling and Psychotherapy Other Great Psychology on Kindle CollectionsClassic Articles All Psychology Students Should Read
This particular Kindle collection consists of the most influential, infamous and iconic research articles ever published in the history of psychology. See following link for full details. The Psychology Classics Kindle Collection Forensic Psychology, Serial Killer & FBI Profiling Classics This special Kindle collection consists primarily of the landmark articles written by members of the Behavioral Science Units, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, at the FBI Academy. These seminal publications in the history of FBI profiling were released by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the information on serial killers provided by the FBI's Training Division.
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