Rethinking Cognitive Behavioral, Psychodynamic, and Existential Therapy: A Philosophical Framework for a Unified Treatment Model [Paperback]

This book presents an integrated model of all three major orientations: cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and existential, that is dialectical in approach to allow therapists the flexibility and knowledge to match the right orientation with their clients psychological needs.

Dr. Klein's book, Rethinking Cognitive Behavioral, Psychodynamic, and Existential Therapy, is much needed and will be tremendously helpful to todays students. It provides a unique model for understanding how a philosophical perspective on psychology directly relates to clinical work. The vignettes and examples beautifully illustrate the ideas.

Glen L. Sherman, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Saint Elizabeth University

Psychotherapy can be likened to applied philosophy. In Rethinking Cognitive Behavioral, Psychodynamic, and Existential Therapy, Dr. Klein does more than thathe vividly and eloquently demonstrates it. With a sweeping command of schools of psychotherapy, intellectual history, and philosophy, he creates a rich and cohesive tapestry for understanding psychotherapy.

Craig L. Katz, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Education, System Design & Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

This book presents a new integrative paradigm for psychotherapy that brings together cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and existential approaches within a coherent philosophical framework.

Drawing from the history of philosophy it explores how metaphysical thought reflects both the intellectual spirit of the times and the psychosocial development of the individual. The model suggests that, just as ideas evolve through history, patients move through metaphysical stagesrealism, idealismlã+