Overview
- Practical: Practical guide to dealing with power phenomena (independent of the procedure)
- Experienced professional: Knows pitfalls of practice and training alike
- Easy to read: comprehensible and prepared with regard to applicability
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In this book, the author discusses with a view to psychotherapeutic practice how power and the exercise of power can be used in a constructive sense. Spontaneously, people tend to associate the topic of power negatively. They mostly talk about their own powerlessness and the power of "those up there", and very rarely about their own striving for power. It is undisputed that power and the exercise of power, as well as dealing with powerlessness, play an important role in psychotherapy. Nevertheless, the constructive and destructive aspects of power are still too little reflected. Here, there is a mentalization deficit on the part of both psychotherapists and patients. In this book questions are asked and suggestions for practice are developed.
Written for psychological psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychotherapists, family therapists, counselors, psychiatrists, physicians, students, and psychotherapists in training.
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Keywords
- Consulting
- Near and Distance
- Assertiveness
- Family Therapy
- Credibility
- Healing
- Child and adolescent psychotherapy
- Abuse of power, Misuse of power
- Power games an Power plays
- Mentalization deficit
- Powerlessness
- Psychotherapeutic relationship
- Psychotherapy
- Rituals
- Supervision
- Persuasiveness
- Stress and resilience
Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. phil. Marie-Luise Althoff, studied mathematics, psychology and education; she is a psychoanalyst, lecturer, supervisor and teaching therapist. She works in private practice in Bielefeld/Germany and teaches at several training institutes and universities. Areas of interest: secure frame, mentalizing and mentalization-based treatment, and couples therapy. She is a founding member of the German-speaking Mentalizing Network (MBT-DACH).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mentalizing Power and Powerlessness
Book Subtitle: Constructive and Destructive Use of Power in Psychotherapy
Authors: Marie-Luise Althoff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66119-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-66118-5Published: 20 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-66121-5Published: 21 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-66119-2Published: 19 December 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 192
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychiatry, Consulting, Supervision and Coaching