Front Cover -- Clinical Strategies for Becoming a Master Psychotherapist -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of CONTRIBUTORS -- Chapter 01 The Art and Science of Psychotherapy -- Psychotherapy is not Entirely an Art -- Psychotherapy is not Only a Science -- Psychotherapy is both an Art and a Science -- An Outline of the Problems Encountered in the Art of Psychotherapy -- References -- Chapter 02 Enhancing Client Motivation to Change -- Definition -- Enhancing Motivation for Change -- Assessment -- Theoretical Underpinnings of Motivational Interviewing -- The Practice of Motivational Interviewing -- Summary -- Recommended Reading and Online Resources -- References -- Chapter 03 The Therapeutic Alliance: Cultivating and Negotiating the Therapeutic Relationship -- Definition -- Identification -- Theory and Conceptualization -- Case Formulation -- Clinical Strategies -- Key Mistakes -- Case Study -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 04 Narrative Psychotherapy as Effective Story-Making: An Introduction -- Why a Narrative Approach to Psychotherapy? -- Conceptualizing Psychotherapy as Active Story-Making -- A Suggested Conceptual Framework -- Suggested Clinical Practices for Narrative Psychotherapy -- A Story Unfinished -- Story-Making's Universe, or Narration's Neglect in Psychotherapy -- A Story Retold -- References -- Chapter 05 Recognizing and Dealing with Cultural Influences in Psychotherapy -- Definition of Culture and Other Terms -- Recognizing and Dealing with Cultural Influences in the Client -- Dealing and Recognizing Cultural Influences in the Therapist -- Case Illustration -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 06 Effective Understanding and Dealing with Manipulation -- References -- Chapter 07 Recognizing and Dealing with Transference -- Definition -- Detection and other Assessment Issues -- Theory and Conceptualization.

Impact on Case Formulation -- Clinical Strategies -- Key Mistakes and Miscomprehensions -- Case Study -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 08 The Temporal Structure of Therapy: Key Questions Often Associated with Different Phases of Sessions and Treatments (Plus Twenty-one Helpful Hints) -- The Temporal Structure of Therapy -- Some Questions to Consider at Different Junctures in Therapy -- A Few Other Hints -- References -- Chapter 09 Resistance as an Ally in Psychotherapy -- A Definition: Patients have a Right to their Resistance -- Who is Presenting What, and Why? -- Initial Strategies for Working with Resistance -- Imperative Strategies for Working with Resistance -- Different Strokes for Different Folks: Who is Presenting? -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 10 Enhancing Psychotherapy through Appropriate entry points -- Entry Point: a Definition -- The Landscape: Onion and Garlic Psychodynamics -- Analyzable Onion Conditions -- Analyzable Garlic Conditions -- The Borderline Personality: A Category all its own -- Onion and Garlic Nonanalyzable (Psychotic) Patients -- Turning up the Heat With Garlic Patients -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 11 Dealing with Feelings of Depression -- Definitions -- Theory and Conceptualization -- Case Formulation -- Clinical Strategies -- Key Mistakes and Miscomprehensions -- Case Study -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 12 Designing and Assigning Effective Homework -- Definition and History of Homework in Psychotherapy -- Theory and Conceptualization: The Purpose of Homework -- Clinical Strategies -- Key Mistakes and Miscomprehensions -- Case Studies -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 13 Skills Training: How the Master Clinician Understands and Teaches Competencies -- Background: Why are Skills Necessary? -- Potential Advantages of a Skills Training Approach -- The Major Clinical Questions in Skills Training.

Technology, Dissemination, and Skills Training -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 Using Tasks in Ericksonian Psychotherapy -- Setting Goals in Therapy -- Setting Goals in Ericksonian Therapy -- Gift Wrapping -- A Taxonomy of Tasks -- Additional Considerations -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 15 Using Acceptance in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy -- Definitions -- Detection and other Assessment Issues -- Theory and Conceptualization -- Impact on Case Formulation -- Clinical Strategies -- Key Mistakes and Miscomprehensions -- Case Example -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 16 Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Goes to Hollywood: The Treatment of Performance Anxiety in Cinema -- Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy -- Case Illustrations -- Clinical Issues and Summary -- References -- Chapter 17 The Importance of Novelty in Psychotherapy -- Defining the Issue -- Theory, Conceptualization, and Assessment -- Impact on Case Formulation -- Clinical Strategies -- Key Mistakes and Misconceptions -- Case Study -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 18 Interruption Replaces Termination in Focused, Intermittent Psychotherapy throughout the Life Cycle -- Step 1: Diminishing The Transference Through a Therapeutic Partnership -- Step 2: Raising the Intensity of the Treatment Experience -- Step 3: Clinical Strategies for Implementing the Interruption -- Half a Century of Experience -- Case Illustrations -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 19 Suicidal Patients: The Ultimate Challenge for Master Psychotherapists -- Outmoded Attitudes (or Misbeliefs) -- The Suicidal Process -- Interventions for Lethal Stage 3 Patients -- Managing Lethal Paranoid Patients -- Interventions for Nonlethal Patients -- Case Illustration: Destiny -- Summary -- References -- Author Index -- Index.