This treatment modality used by a variety of professionals to treat a broad range of
mental disorders requires one (or occasionally
more than one) psychotherapist
talking to a patient, couple, family, or group of individuals in a disciplined manner.
Specific psychotherapeutic modalities and techniques include:
Corsini, Raymond J Current
Psychotherapies Paperback 1995 the book consists of a comprehensive introduction
to major psychotherapy approaches. The contributors are leading figures or founders of
each approach. -Jeanette Chen, PhD
Ordinary People
DVD Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler
Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton 2001
This story
provides a compelling illustration of how the loss of a child can throw an apparently
well-functioning family into chaos. Does the survivor suffer from
post
traumatic stress disorder? In the film Judd Hirsch plays the most human and
approachable, yet ethical, psychiatrist yet portrayed in cinema.
Outpatient DVD (indieflix.com)
Justin Kirk, Catherine Kellner 2002
PanicDVD
(2000) John Ritter, William Macy, Neve Campbell, Tracy Ullman, Donald
Sutherland: Men, women, marriage, affairs, guns, killing, generations,
husbands, wives, psychotherapy,
boundaries,
the duty to protect, family secrets,
emptiness, but most of all fathers and sons. Setting aside the
elements of film that categorize the academy awards what I liked most about
this powerful film were the endless unanswered questions and the glimmer of
hope that our sons can be better than their fathers.
Reign Over Me DVD Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Liv Tyler 2007
Slater, Lauren Welcome to My CountryHardcover | Paperback | Audio cassetteThis
book is a psychologist's compassionate memoir featuring the stories of her patients' lives
and her efforts to connect with them as fellow beings. She writes: "My patient and I
sit down, look at each other. I see myself in her. I trust she sees herself in me. This is
where we begin." The book revolves around Slater's early experiences as a therapist
at Bates House - a residence for individuals with chronic
schizophrenia in East Boston. However, not all of her
patients who resided there had schizophrenia. The author also describes her interactions
with and novel treatment resolutions for a sociopathic young man, a severely depressed
mother and - toughest of all for Slater personally - a woman with borderline personality
disorder. Slater herself had been diagnosed with
borderline personality disorder in her early
youth and had been institutionalized for several years. She attributes the impetus for her
transformation from patient to therapist to the special influence of foster parents who
stuck by her in her late teens. Throughout this book Slater expresses a strong drive to
reach her patients, because: "Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin
but reach out to rasp us all." She writes in lush style which waxes poetic. Reading
Slater's memoir is a rewarding experience, not only for the author's creative flair, but
chiefly for her stance of committed compassion, the hope her own story offers and the
threads of connectedness she has spun into the lives of her patients. Review by Susan
Cunningham, W/AMI