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Integrative Relational Psychotherapy is a demonstration and discussion of Paul L. Wachtel's approach to treating clients. In this approach, the therapeutic work centers on disrupting the vicious circles in which clients' interactions with others perpetuate the distressing affect states and the internal conflicts that generated their actions in the first place. In this session, Dr. Wachtel works with a young woman who is experiencing stress in her marriage surrounding her husband's family and their overinvolvement in their life. Dr. Wachtel works with her to begin to define the boundaries she requires for her own well-being. They also start to look at the way she may be undermining her own efforts to achieve balance in her relationships.
Dr. Wachtel's approach to therapy is an integrative one. Centered in the relational version of psychoanalytic thought and practice, it includes elements of behavioral, family systems, and experiential approaches as well. The rooting in relational psychoanalysis leads to a strong concern with the therapeutic relationship and an understanding of that relationship that leaves room for a much wider range of possible interactions and interventions than traditional psychoanalytic approaches.
Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, is distinguished professor in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He did his undergraduate work at Columbia University, received his PhD in clinical psychology from Yale University, and is a graduate of the postdoctoral psychoanalytic training program at New York University, where he is also on the faculty. He is internationally recognized as an innovator in the field of psychotherapy and for his contributions to the application of psychological theory and research to the pressing social problems of our times. A cofounder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Dr. Wachtel is the author of many books, including Action and Insight; The Poverty of Affluence; Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy; Therapeutic Communication; Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World; and, most recently, Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circles Between Blacks and Whites. A number of his books have been widely described as classics in the field.
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