Six Therapists and One Client, Second Edition

How would therapists using different theoretical systems handle the very same client?This volume demonstrates how six therapists working within the structures of six different major theoretical orientations would treat the same person. Approaches include - Ericksonian Hypnotherapy (Lankton) REBT (Ellis), Multimodal Therapy (Lazarus), Individual Psychotherapy (Corsini), Person-centered Therapy (Zimring), and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (McGrady). Each therapist explains the thinking that underpins his or her clinical interventions. It is this thinking aloud methodology which makes each chapter an invaluable text for psychotherapy students. Each chapter is followed by a critique by experts in the field.

About the Author

Raymond Corsini, PhD, 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 organization psychologist (10 years), and finally was in private practice in Hawaii for 25 years. Frank Dumont, EdD, is a full professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at McGill University (Montreal). He has worked at McGill since 1972 in the capacity of teacher, researcher, chairman of his department, and coordinator of the PhD program in counseling psychology.