Making Room for the Disavowed
Reclaiming the Self in Psychotherapy
Paul L. Wachtel
1. Making Room for Thoughts and Feelings: Attachment, Self-Acceptance, and Emotional Immediacy
2. Silos, Stereotypes, and the Evolutionary Links between Diverse and Competing Approaches
3. What Is the Appropriate Evidence Base for Responsible Clinical Practice?
II. Beyond Pathologizing: The Dialectics of Acceptance and Change
4. From Interpreting Wishes and Feelings to Making Room for Them: The Problem with Uncovering “the Truth”
5. The Roots of Pathologizing and Accusatory Interpretations
6. Anxiety, Exposure, and the Path to Self-Acceptance
7. Making Room in CBT: From Beck and Ellis to the Dialectics of Acceptance and Change
III. Attachment and the Lifelong Dynamics of Development
8. Self-Acceptance and Self-Rejection: The Critical Impact of Attachment
9. Working in the Present on the Consequences of the Past
IV. Living-in-the-World
10. Experiencing, Emotional Immediacy, and Self-in-Action
11. Living in Contexts: From the Relational Matrix to the Impact of Culture and Society
12. The Many Faces of Psychotherapy
References
Index