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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 therapeutic interventions.
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