Six Therapists and One Client: 2nd Edition

353 Pages·2000·20.49 MB·English

by  Frank Dumont EdD

Six Therapists
and One Client
2nd Edition
Frank Dumont, EdD
Raymond ]. Corsini, PhD
Editors
Springer Publishing Company
Raymond Corsini, Ph.D., has been a clinical psychologist for over 50
years. He started as a prison psychologist (15 years), then was in
private practice in Chicago (5 years), then was an industrial organiza-
tion psychologist (10 years), and finally was in private practice in
Hawaii for 25 years. He was trained by Carl Rogers, J. L. Moreno, and
Rudolf Dreikurs. He has published considerably in this specialty.
Frank Dumont, Ed.D., is a full professor in the Department of Edu-
cational and Counseling Psychology at McGill University (Montreal).
He has worked at McGill since 1972 in the capacity of teacher, re-
searcher, chairman of his department, and coordinator of the Ph.D.
program in counseling psychology.
Six Therapists
and One Client
2nd Edition
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Six therapists and one client / Frank Dumont and Raymond J.
Corsini, editors. — 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8261-1319-2 (hardcover)
1. Psychotherapy. I. Dumont, Frank, 1928- II. Corsini,
Raymond J.
[DNLM: 1. Psychotherapy—methods. WM 420 S625 20001
RC480.F5568 2000
616.89'14—dc21
99-058723
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 AN INTAKE INTERVIEW WITH DONALD GREEN 1
Chapter 2 ERICKSONIAN HYPNOTHERAPY 15
therapist: Stephen Lankton
critic: Betty Alice Erickson
Chapter 3 RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY 85
therapist: Albert Ellis
critic: Shawn Blau
Chapter 4 MULTIMODAL THERAPY 145
therapist: Arnold Lazarus
critic: Alice Goodloe Whipple
Chapter 5 ADLERIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY 175
therapist: Raymond J. Corsini
critic: Harold H. Mosak
Chapter 6 PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY 223
therapist: Fred Zimring
critic: Nathaniel J. Raskin
Chapter 7 COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY 269
therapist: Barbara McCrady
critic: G. Terence Wilson
Index 323
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Contributors
Shawn Blau, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
Raymond J. Corsini, private practice, Honolulu, Hawaii
Frank Dumont, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Albert Ellis, Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, New York,
New York
Betty Alice Erickson, private practice, Dallas, Texas
Stephen Lankton, private practice, Gulf Stream, Florida
Arnold Lazarus, Center for Multimodal Psychological Services, Princeton,
New Jersey
Barbara McCrady, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Harold H. Mosak, private practice, Chicago, Illinois
Nathaniel Raskin, Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston,
Illinois
Alice Goodloe Whipple, private practice, Princeton, New Jersey
G. Terence Wilson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Fred Zimring, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Preface
W e have chosen the therapeutic systems represented in this
book because we believe they will dominate this disci-
pline in the approaching decades. An important problem
that remains unresolved in our field is that different therapeutic sys-
tems not only provide different approaches to treating very similar
disorders, they also conceptualize these disorders differently. The ques-
tion we ask here is: how would six eminent therapists using six differ-
ent contemporary psychotherapies differentially handle one and the
same client.
Six Therapists and One Client is a partial response to this question.
The contributors to this volume have demonstrated in as precise and
concise a manner possible how they, individually working within the
framework of six different theoretical orientations, would have treated
the same person. Their distinctive approaches are immediately appar-
ent and comparable. The central protagonist of this book is Don Green,
a complexly troubled (and historical) person, for whom an evolving
assessment and treatment is concurrently provided by six therapists.
An intake interview (chapter 1) presents him as he originally present-
ed himself, troubled by a number of fears, shackled by dysfunctional
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