{"product_id":"bringing-psychotherapy-to-life-through-caring-connections-paperback","title":"Bringing Psychotherapy to Life Through Caring Connections - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon G. Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe health care system privileges specialized therapies designed to treat psychiatric disorders, but many patients want to talk freely about troubles in their lives, and therapists want to enable them do so. This common interest requires a sense of safety promoted by a caring relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first part of the book includes an evidence-based critique of short-term therapies bearing scientific credentials that dominate the field. Do we really need hundreds of them? Meanwhile, a half-century of research attests to the overriding importance of the therapeutic relationship and therapists' interpersonal skills. Our humanity looms large here; science's majesty does not entitle it to a monarchy. Cognitive-behavior therapy is too narrow; we should give full weight to the value of emotional experience and nonverbal connection in therapy and in life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe philosophical shift advocated in the first part of the book includes a view of psychotherapy as ethical-moral work, setting the stage for an ethic of care explicated in the second part of the book. This ethic entails creating caring connections. The book integrates infant research with attachment theory and relational psychoanalytic perspectives to elucidate the development of a capacity to care. Therapists foster reciprocal emotional connections through attention, empathy, and recognition. Verbal and nonverbal connections play coequal roles. Much of care lies beyond words, from infancy onward.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConversational in tone and sufficiently broad in scope to apply to therapists in many professional disciplines, \u003ci\u003eBringing Psychotherapy to Life Through Caring Connections\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the common elements that form the experience of connection in psychotherapy and beyond-experience that is essential to flourishing in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.07 x 5.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53506920743219,"sku":"9798894550909","price":91.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YWnkPtbhxJ9798894550909.webp?v=1781683765","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/bringing-psychotherapy-to-life-through-caring-connections-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}