Core Elements for an Integrative Therapy

Part 1: Practice

1. Objectives and Outcomes

2. The Therapeutic Environment

3. Interventions and Techniques

4. Words and Symbols

5. Emotions and Needs

6. Resistance, Barriers and Defences

7. Transference and Projections

8. The Therapist’s Use of Self

Part 2: Theory

9. Personality Development

10. The Self and Personality Structure

11. Conscious and Unconscious

12. Internalization

13. Character and Personality Types

14. Models of Psychopathology

Integrative therapy describes therapeutic practice that draws upon several established therapeutic modalities blending theory and practice into a personal description of how a particular therapist works. This book demonstrates the collective wisdom of a number of therapists, from different modalities, and practitioners in a number of countries world-wide. Summarised at length in all fourteen chapters of the proposed book by the editor of the original Open University Press series Core Concepts in Therapy, they provide a wealth of material from which therapists will be able to develop their own particular practice as an integrative therapist.