Psychotherapy and the Bored Patient

1. Auflage 1988
ISBN: 978-0-86656-641-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

The specific guidelines to the clinical management of the bored or boring patient--offered in this provocative book--will be valuable to all psychotherapists. Contributors discuss the fascinating theories and therapies of boredom--why it is both a necessity and an obstacle to a person’s development. Fresh insights into the meaning of boredom for the patient or the therapist (or both) are presented through the discussion of such topics as the type of person most prone to boredom, boredom as a launching point into other experiences, boredom as a defense against strong affects and drive derivatives, the manifestations of boredom in marital therapy clients, and much more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stern, E Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Boredom as a Text in Waiting: A Preface - An Awakening and Complexity - Boredom: Theory and Therapy - The Bored and Boring Patient - Functions of Boredom: Treatment Implications - Characterological Boredom as Symptom and Tragedy - The Bored Patient: A Developmental/Existential Perspective - Treating the Bored Client With Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) - Client-Therapist Boredom: What Does It Mean and What Do We Do? - The Use of the Therapist’s Self in the Treatment of the Bored Patient - The Bored Client: A Logotherapy Approach - Transition Boredom - On the Feeling of Longing With Schizophrenic Patients - Boredom in Marital Therapy: A Clinician’s Reflections - Some Lively Thoughts on Boredom - Holding On When You Feel Like Letting Go - Paralysis of the Soul: When Life Becomes Boredom

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Marggraf Turley is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author ofThe Politics of Language in Romantic Literature (2002) andWriting Essays: A Guide for Students in English and the Humanities (2000). He is currently working on a co-edited collection of essays tracing Romantic influence in twentieth-century literature.