Book Description

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- INTRODUCTION -- Attending to Therapeutic Catalysts -- The Common Factors Hypothesis -- The Need for Greater Scientific Grounding -- The Need for Integration --Chapter 1. The Therapeutic Relationship: Beyond This Point of Convergence Toward a Standardized Terminology -- Interpersonal Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship -- Nonverbal Behavior and the Therapeutic Relationship -- Limitations of the Intrapsychic Approach to Psychotherapy Research -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Universal Variables: Toward a Higher-Order Theory -- A Discovery Investigation--Unraveling "What Has Already Occurred" Narrowing the Research Focus -- Developing a Common Framework -- The Need for a Scientific Theory -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Nonverbal Behavior, Information Processing, and Interpersonal Communication in Psychotherapy -- An Overview of Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Communication Theory -- Nonverbal Therapist Behavior as Nonspecific Nonverbal Behavioral Research in Psychotherapy -- Delineating Psychotherapeutic Variables -- The Need for Operationalism in Psychotherapy -- The Therapeutic versus Interpersonal Relationship -- Facilitative versus Growth-Inhibiting Behaviors -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Face-to-Face Interaction: The Behavioral, Biological, and Cognitive Relevance of Dominant Eye Contact in Psychotherapy -- Eye Contact Research in Psychotherapy -- The Significance of Eye Contact in the Therapeutic Relationship -- The Significance of Eye Dominance in Psychotherapy -- Eye Contact and Information Processing -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Intensive Experiential Exploration: The Psychobiological Significance of Client Verbalization and Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy -- The Self in Psychotherapy Affect, Catharsis, and Self-Disclosure -- Self-Disclosure as Therapeutic -- Psychobiological Bases of Therapeutic Self-Disclosure -- The Role of the "Other" in Reprocessing of Information -- The Psychotherapeutic Implications of Penfield's Work -- "Blocks" to Information Processing and Interpersonal Communication -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 6. The Talking Cure: Language as a Remedy for, and Source of, Neuroses and Incongruence -- Linguistics and Psychotherapy -- Seeking the Biological Bases of Language and Meaning -- Cognitive and Psychobiological Change Through Language and Discourse Language as a Bridge Between Mind and Brain -- The Genesis of Discursive Psychology -- Mind, Brain, and the Generation of Consciousness Through Language -- Thought and the Formation of the Mind -- Mind and the Phenomenon of Therapeutic Growth -- Therapeutic Growth versus Mental "Illness" -- Language and Discourse as a Remedy for Neuroses and Incongruence -- Constructive Language Process, or the "Unconscious"? Language and the Reconstruction of Personal Reality -- Reprocessing Information Through Asymmetric Relationships -- Therapeutic Outcome: Facilitating Self-Growth -- The Asymmetrical Talking "Cure" -- Autonomous Processes: The "Hardware" Underlying the "Software" -- Language as a Source of Neuroses and Incongruence -- Neural Limitations Underlying Reasoning -- Bridging the "Gap" Without the "Black Box" -- "Trapped" Within the Self -- Anxiety as a Signal for Change -- Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Facilitative Therapist Behaviors as a Modus Operandi: Integrative Eclecticism Within Transtheoretical and Common Factors -- Integration Scientific Roadblocks -- Facilitating the Re-Creation of the Client's "Design" Toward Unifying the Person -- Asymmetry as a Universal Psychotherapeutic Characteristic -- Facilitative Face-to-Face Interaction -- Facilitative Nonverbal Interaction in Psychotherapy Communication as an Aggregate or Holistic Phenomenon -- Unobstructed Asymmetrical Communication as a Modus Operandi -- The Ideological Legacy Helping Clients -- Shoulder the Burden of Change -- A Final Variable: Length of Session.