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The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy When Therapy Works--And When It Doesn't

In The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy: When Therapy Works--And When It Doesn't Howard Bacal presents specificity theory, a contemporary process theory of psychotherapy that holds that therapy happens at the fit between the patient's particulartherapeutic needs and the therapist's capacity to respond to them, both of which will emerge and change within the unique process of each particular dyad. Specificity theory challenges the traditional method and epistemology of psychoanalysis, wherein the understanding of the patient and the therapeutic response are apprehended through rules and pre.

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