A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Awareness, Courage, Love, and Behaviorism

by Mavis Tsai, Robert J. Kohlenberg, Jonathan W. Kanter

For more than two decades, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy has brought new meaning – and new meaningfulness – to client/therapist relationships. And clients with disorders as varied as depression, PTSD, and fibromyalgia have benefited from its nuanced, curative power. In A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, originators Robert Kohlenberg and Mavis Tsai join with other FAP practitioners to present a clinical framework, addressing points of convergence and divergence with other behavior therapies. Tracing FAP’s emerging evidence base, it takes readers through the deep complexities and possibilities of the therapeutic bond. And the attention to mindfulness and the self makes maximum clinical use of the uniqueness of every client – and every therapist.

Genres: Psychology, Counselling

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 1980

Reviews

[Luiz Fabricio Calland Cerqueira · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mostly good, but not my thing.
Some good ideas about the reinforcement of desired behaviors in therapy and the power of self-revelation in the micro-cosmos of the therapeutic setting as a parallel to the outside world, but felt too time consuming if stand alone approach to therapy.