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I'm Right, You're Wrong, Now What?: Break the Impasse and Get What You Need
They happen every day--those frustrating,circular "I'm right, you're wrong!" arguments What's at risk may be aslife-changing as whether or not your kid drops out of college, your aging parentgoes into a nursing home, or your boss gives you the promotion you want. Or itmay be as commonplace as getting the insurance company to approve your claim.These situations often frustrate both parties, stall progress, and hurtrelationships. But they don't have to.In I'm Right, You're Wrong, Now What? Dr. Xavier Amador, a Columbia Universityprofessor and clinical psychologist shows you how to break nearly any impasseand persuade your opponent--for that's what people become when you've reached animpasse--to give you what you need..
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Breaking The Impasse: Consensual Approaches To Resolving Public Disputes
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Beyond the Impasse
From the outset, cultures and neighboring faith traditions have influenced the development of Christian theology. This process continues even today, as Christians in the West are encountering a whole host of other believers, including Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists. As people of all faiths come together, Christians have begun asking some important questions: How does Christianity differ from other faiths? Can Christians learn from other religions? And if so, can other religions learn from Christianity? Many Christians have looked to other religions and wondered whether Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus can be saved. But according to Amos Young, Christians should rather seek to understand the role and purpose of religions in the overall providential plan of God. While not ignoring questions about salvation through other religions, Yong asks Christians to focus on the work of the Holy Spirit, which is both universal and particular. In other words, God creates human beings by breathing his spirit into them, and yet the Spirit is sent by Jesus to a particular group of people. Recognizing the various understandings of the Spirit in Scripture helps Christians to take seriously the variety of world religions and consider that dialogue with these religions might well spark a renaissance of Christian theology in the twenty-first century. Beyond the Impasse will appeal to pastors, students, and laypeople interested in formulating a robust, biblical, and comprehensive Christian theology of religions..
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One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
A “visionary”* approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—one state for two peoples—that is more urgent than everIt is by now a commonplace that the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian violence is to divide the territory in two. All efforts at resolving the conflict have come down to haggling over who gets what: Will Israel hand over 90 percent of the West Bank or only 60 percent? Will a Palestinian state include any part of Jerusalem? Clear-eyed, sharply reasoned, and compassionate, One Country proposes a radical alternative: to revive the neglected idea of one state shared by two peoples. Ali Abunimah shows how the two are by now so intertwined—geographically and economically—that separation cannot lead to the security Israelis need or the rights Palestinians must have. Taking on the objections and taboos that stand in the way of a binational solution, he demonstrates that sharing the territory will bring benefits for all. The absence of other workable options has only led to ever- greater extremism. It is time, Abunimah argues, for Palestinians and Israelis to imagine a different future and a different relationship. .
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Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy: An Integrative, Personality-Based Treatment for Complex Cases
For individuals with chronic, complex problems that include multiple Axis I disorders comorbid with personality disorders, the barriers to change are significant. This book presents a powerful therapeutic approach that integrates psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, client-centered, and other techniques to empower patients to overcome these barriers by fostering change in personality. Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy (IRT) is grounded in an innovative case formulation method that systematically links symptoms to maladaptive patterns in attachment relationships. IRT offers a step-by-step framework for structuring interventions to promote learning of new, healthier patterns, while blocking problem behaviors and building a strong therapeutic alliance. A new preface in the paperback edition addresses current developments in IRT research and practice. .
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Therapy With Difficult Clients: Using the Precursors Model to Awaken Change
In Therapy With Difficult Clients, Fred J. Hanna suggests that therapeutic change hinges on seven factors If the client has hope that change is attainable, feels the necessity to change, is aware, is willing to experience anxiety or difficulty and willing to confront issues, if the client will exert will or effort and has social support, the prognosis will be positive, no matter what the therapist's theoretical orientation or techniques. On the other hand, if these change catalysts, or precursors, are absent or deficient, there will be roadblocks to therapeutic change no matter how skilled the therapist, how potent the theory, or how close the relationship. The good news for any therapist who has ever encountered a client who believes change is frightening, unattainable, or a waste of time, is that the obstacles are not insurmountable. In this practical guide, Hanna offers a tool for assessing clients' readiness for change. He offers an abundance of strategies, examples, and insights for enhancing the precursors that are lacking and leveraging those that are present. This model offers invaluable guidance for the stalled client and therapist alike..
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Psychotherapy With "Impossible" Cases: The Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans
A new approach, based on a five-year clinical study, for clients who have not responded to treatment Therapy veterans are "impossible" clients--those who are unmoved by the therapist's treatment techniques and thus become mired in a therapeutic impasse. This book convinces readers that successful treatment can occur when therapy is accommodated to the client's frame of reference and the client's theory of change is honored, and it demonstrates how to do this. Whether a therapist uses this model as a creative "last-resort approach" or as a preferred method of treatment, a new direction will be forged, making the impossible possible. Several riveting, full-length cases clearly illustrate this new approach. .
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Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse
An award-winning journalist explores the culture of denial in Israeli and Palestinian societies—and its lethal consequences Walled examines the contemporary state of mind of Israel's citizens, tracing the history of the State of Israel back to the Jewish national movement and the beginnings of Zionism. Sylvain Cypel offers a lucid analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian situation and powerfully demonstrates that the wall of protection erected in the West Bank by Israel is the most visible symptom of a society in peril. Those who are walled, Cypel argues, are first and foremost the Israelis themselves, who have chosen to ignore rather than acknowledge the existence and rights of their neighbors. Through the study of political discourse, intellectual controversy, and national institutions such as the army and the educational system, Cypel illuminates the mechanics of the culture of force that has led Israeli society into its current impasse. Walled combines historical, cultural, and sociological analysis with personal testimonies and a delightful Jewish wit, offering a cogent and gripping portrait of two peoples walled by denial: Israeli society and its "other," the Palestinians..
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Resolving Impasses in Therapeutic Relationships
This volume deals with a fundamental issue that all clinicians face at some time or other: the therapeutic impasse. What should you do when sessions with a client seem hopelessly mired, or when the client feels that you have done something so egregious that therapy goes awry? How about an abrupt rupture: when you find the angry or hostile feelings directed toward you to be so intolerable that you decide to terminate?
Based on years of clinical and consultation work, Sue Nathanson Elkind presents a theoretical framework for understanding and working with the relational knots that occur between therapists and their patients. Asserting that such episodes are unavoidable pivotal events in therapeutic relationships, she provides a map of the wide range of predicaments that can arise, including:
* Mismatches between therapist and patient
* Stalemates resulting from patient-therapist collusion
* Irreconcilable conflicts or power struggles
* Breaches in the attachment bond
* Untimely terminations
Elkind demonstrates how patients and therapists function as relational partners. Without blame and with compassion for inevitable difficulties, she describes how impasses arise when these partnerships become rigid, operate outside of conscious awareness, or when the vulnerabilities and defenses of the patient and the therapist intersect in problematic ways. Her concepts of primary vulnerabilities and relational modes benefit both parties: Rather than automatically pathologizing the patient, they empower the patient and humanize the therapist by recognizing normal human limitations.
The final section of the book presents an in-depth discussion of a form of consultation for therapeutic impasses that may include both the patient and the therapist. Demonstrating how both may suffer when the therapeutic dyads function in isolation, Elkind advocates setting up a relational network through the presence of a consultant. Vignettes of actual consultations of this type for a wide range of problems illustrate how such consultations work, what functions they can serve, and what their limitations are.
Featuring stories that often are not told because of the feelings of shame and failure that arise for therapists and patients caught in therapeutic impasses, this book is compelling reading. It fills a gap in the literature by comprehensively addressing a common, but rarely discussed, aspect of the profession. As such, it is an important volume for both experienced and novice clinicians regardless of theoretical persuasion. Bringing theoretical issues to life through its clinical vignettes, it also serves as an excellent text for graduate and postgraduate courses in psychology, counseling, psychiatry, and psychiatric social work.
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