Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments

"This outstanding book breaks new ground by creating a united states of psychotherapy. One volume contains the best theory and practice of the major psychotherapies written lucidly by their leading proponents. Gabbard and colleagues also succeed in wedding modern neurobiology and psychopharmacology to the talking cure. In thus advancing psychiatric treatment the authors treat the reader to something old, something new, something borrowed, and something true."—David Spiegel, M.D., Willson Professor & Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Co-Editor of Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment; Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care.

"This landmark volume fills an essential niche in the field of mental health. It presents the diverse and evolving field of psychotherapy, both theory and practice, in a scholarly yet immediately accessible way. The editors and authors, all experts in their fields, have given us a text that can be used to define a curriculum for training as well as an indispensable resource for mental health clinicians at every level of experience. Dr. Gabbard has coordinated an essential psychotherapy text that could not have been written until now and will enhance the lives of clinicians and their patients well into the future."—David A. Goldberg, M.D., Past President and Executive Director, American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT), Past President, Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP), Vice Chair for Education, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco

"Rare indeed is a book that includes both scholarly reviews of psychotherapy theory and psychotherapy practice, and which is written in a clear and concise manner. Not only does this text deliver on this difficult task, but also covers all the main forms of psychotherapy in use today. Gabbard is to be commended for this excellent work, with an outstanding and well known group of authors, which starts with providing an outstanding conceptual framework and ends with up to the minute practical clinical material. This will rapidly become a standard text for any student of psychotherapy, no matter what discipline."—Allan Tasman, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Louisville School of Medicine; President, Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists; Secretary for Education, World Psychiatric Association; Past President, American Psychiatric Association