Early Recollections Theory and Practice in Counseling and Psychotherapy [Hardcover]

This book reviews the extensive literature on early recollections and organizes various interpretive systems of evaluating early memories. The practitioner will find specific and detailed guidelines for administering and interpreting early recollections to help integrate these memories into counseling and psychotherapy. Following a carefully articulated contextual approach to early recollections, which synthesizes three perspectives - subjective, interpersonal and objective - come suggestions for using early recollections in the counseling process and a full-length case study to explicate the model and demonstrate the utility of using this approach.Part I: Early Recollections:Introduction, Theoretical Perspectives, and Research
1.Introduction of Early Recollections
Introduction
Advantages of Early Recollections inCounseling and Psychotherapy
Disadvantages of EarlyRecollections in Counseling and Psychotherapy
EarlyRecollections in a Contextural and DevelopmentalModel
Early Recollections in a CaseIllustration

2. Theoretical Perspectives of Early Memories
Introduction
Alfred Adler's Perspectivesin Early Memories
Sigmund Freud's Perspectives onEarly Memories
Recovered Memories, False Memories,and Early Recollections
3. Taxonomic Considerations and Personality Dimensions of Early Memories
Introduction
TaxonomicInvestigations
Personality Dimensions
Summary
4. Diagnostic Impressions of Early Recollections
Introduction
Clinical Disorders
Personality Disorders
Summary

Part II:Early Recollections: Scoring Systems, Administration, andInterpretation