Researchers' images of psychotherapy: Their origins and influence on research

Orlinsky, David E.

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“…Lucas, 1976). In the present study, those with histories of severe stressful life events did better with the intervention, which may have allowed for a more open and straightforward discussion of the possibility of 'new life' (Orlinsky, 1989) after severe loss events. Chat patients with similar life stress scores, who dealt with the issue only symbolically, did more poorly than intervention patients.…”

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“…These themes also recall Orlinsky's (1989) comments about the progression from an 'old self in the 'old life' to a 'new self in a 'new life', as women grappled with the new body-self that would exist after surgery. The appearance of themes of loss and restitution in all the chat transcripts illustrates Niederland's (1989) loss/restoration principle that any object lost must be replaced, Pollock's (1989) description of "restitutive ego activities" during mourning, and Brink's (1977) concept of "prosthetic objects" as metaphors for symbolic object repair.…”

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“…He suggests that many people are "unwilling to suffer the pain of giving up what is outgrown" to move on to "the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity" (p. 71). As Orlinsky (1989) puts it, psychotherapy involves an "interpretative construction and transformation of the patient's life narrative" in "moments of personal epiphany.., a transformation of core identity in a conversion by stages, from the 'old self in the 'old life', to a 'new self still in the 'old life', until fmally the patient is confirmed as a 'new self in a 'new life'" (p. 420). If Peck's argument applies, the paradigm of coming to terms with what must be given up in order to find that "new self' in a "new life" may illuminate much of what goes on in psychotherapy.…”

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The psychotherapeutic value of a “Chat”: A verbal response modes study of a placebo attention control with breast cancer patients

Burton

Parker²,

Wollner

1991

Psychotherapy Research

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In a randomized controlled trial of breast cancer patients awaiting surgery, 51 client-centered psychotherapeutic interventions and 56 "chats" were analyzed using Stiles' Verbal Response Modes (VRMs). The 30-minute interventions and chats were carried out the night before surgery by a consultant surgeon trained in client-centered counseling techniques. Significant differences in therapist and client VRMs were found between interventions and chats. Therapist reflection and acknowledgment were the predominant VRMs in the interventions. Significantly more therapist reflection and acknowledgment occurred in the interventions than in the chats, and were associated with significantly more client disclosure. However, intervention and chat patients were indistinguishable on most outcome measures. Some chats bore a resemblance to reminiscence therapy with the elderly. In a content analysis carried out on the chats, the most common topics were holidays, followed by family. Neither VRM disclosure, personal topics discussed, nor "significant" disclosures in the chats predicted better therapeutic out-

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The psychotherapeutic value of a “Chat”: A verbal response modes study of a placebo attention control with breast cancer patients

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Parker²,

Wollner

1991

Psychotherapy Research

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“…The task force's criteria are based on a medical-like metamodel of therapy (e.g., Orlinsky, 1989). In medicine, the physician diagnoses the patient's disorder and then applies a treatment to it.…”

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The Immovable Object Versus the Irresistible Force: Problems and Opportunities for Humanistic Psychology

Leitner

Phillips

2003

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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is currently a professor of psychology at Miami University. He has published extensively on various topics relevant to humanistic psychology. He is the editor of The Humanistic Psychologist and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Constructivist Psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a past president of the Division of Humanistic Psychology. SALLY N. PHILLIPS, M.A., is currently a clinical psychology intern at the Stone Institute of Psychiatry at Northwestern Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University Medical School. She received her M.A. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she is completing her Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Her current research and clinical interests include integrating modern psychodynamic and humanistic/existential/constructivist theories and therapies. In addition, she has a long-standing interest in the psychology of adoption and is completing her dissertation on parents' perceptions of their adopted children's adjustment. SummaryThe immovable force of an increasingly reductionistic approach to understanding and treating psychological life and the irresistible force of people searching desperately for solutions to struggles that allow for meaning, purpose, and richness in life create serious challenges and great opportunities for humanistic psychology. Humanistic psychology, if it can grasp these opportunities, has the chance to transform the field of psychology. To do so, humanistic psychology will have to deal adequately with three major manifestations of this reductionistic approach to psychology: the DSM as the means for 156

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“…Orlinsky, discussing assumptions behind research hypotheses in psychotherapy, suggests that it can be viewed not only as treatment but also as education, reform, or redemption and that research questions and methodology should be informed by these ideas 2. Such research requires qualitative approaches, and answers to questions about effectiveness will not be neat and clear.…”

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Counsellors are seeing people with previously unmet needs

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1996

BMJ

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Researchers' images of psychotherapy: Their origins and influence on research

Cited by 31 publications

References 48 publications

The psychotherapeutic value of a “Chat”: A verbal response modes study of a placebo attention control with breast cancer patients

The psychotherapeutic value of a “Chat”: A verbal response modes study of a placebo attention control with breast cancer patients

The Immovable Object Versus the Irresistible Force: Problems and Opportunities for Humanistic Psychology

Counsellors are seeing people with previously unmet needs

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