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Therapy Breakthrough: Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better Than Others

By: Michael R. Edelstein, Richard K. Kujoth, David Ramsay Steele
Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
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More people are in psychotherapy than ever before. Yet most of them have no idea of the vast differences between the hundreds of various schools of therapy. Therapy Breakthrough is the first book to clearly explain the theories and practices of the two big camps: psychodynamic, or PD therapy, and cognitive-behavioral, or CB therapy.

PD therapists believe that emotional problems are caused by hidden forces in our unconscious minds, forces that cannot be observed directly and that resist being uncovered. CB therapists, by contrast, maintain that the roots of people’s emotional and behavioral disturbances can be identified by direct questions, and these problems can then be tackled by straightforward techniques.

Therapy Breakthrough is written from the standpoint of CB therapy. Using psychological research, philosophy, and common sense, it argues that PD therapy is founded on mistaken theories of the mind, and explains how to apply CB methods directly to your own problems.

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Critic Reviews

"Prepare to embark on a rollicking yet highly informative journey through the intense world of psychotherapy!" (Debbie Joffe Ellis, PhD, co-author (with Albert Ellis) of All Out! and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy)

"Indispensable in helping you see how Cognitive-Behavioral therapy can be used to make your life happier and healthier." (Warren Farrell, PhD, author of Why Men Are the Way They Are)

"A bold and instantly readable primer on the seismic shift in psychotherapy as seen from within the profession…also a fun read!" (Nando Pelushi, PhD, contributing editor for Psychology Today)

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