How Much is Enough?: Endings in Psychotherapy and Counselling

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Psychology Press, 2000 - 176 páginas

How Much is Enough? addresses this important question, looking at the reasons why therapy can go on for too long or can come to a destructively premature ending, and offering advice on how to avoid either, with a timely conclusion. Using vivid examples and practical guidelines, Lesley Murdin examines the theoretical, technical and ethical aspects of endings. She emphasises that it is not only the patient who needs to change if one is to achieve a satisfactory outcome. The therapist must discover the changes in him/herself which are needed to enable an ending in psychotherapy. How Much is Enough? is a unique contribution to therapeutic literature, and will prove invaluable to students and professionals alike.

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What are we waiting for? aims and outcomes
12
Happy endings the goal of resolving transference
23
Dealing with illusions narcissism and endings
44
Staying alive the patients unilateral ending
61
Time to go the therapist ends
80
What is truth? values and valuing endings
97
Ends and means the ethics of ending
117
Endgame last sessions
133
In my beginning is my end the timelimited solution
149
Endings in training and supervision
160
The good ending
172
Index
173
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