The Practice of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy

281 Pages·2010·5.02 MB·English

by  Jonathan W. Kanter

The Practice of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy

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Jonathan W. Kanter Mavis Tsai
Robert J. Kohlenberg
Editors
The Practice of Functional
Analytic Psychotherapy
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Editors
JonathanW.Kanter MavisTsai
DepartmentofPsychology 3245FairviewAvenueEast
UniversityofWisconsin-Milwaukee SeattleWA98102
MilwaukeeWI53201 USA
[email protected]
USA
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RobertJ.Kohlenberg
DepartmentofPsychology
UniversityofWashington
SeattleWA98195-1525
USA
[email protected]
ISBN978-1-4419-5829-7 e-ISBN978-1-4419-5830-3
DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-5830-3
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Preface
Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) was born after a gestational period dur-
ing which Kohlenberg and Tsai, as behavioral scientist practitioners, worked with
clientswhodemonstratedprofoundchangesfarexceedingthespecificstatedgoals
of therapy through a highly emotional therapeutic process. Combining their clini-
cal instincts, a genuine concern and therapeutic love for their clients, and precise
behavioral analyses of the processes that seemed to be responsible for the pro-
found changes observed, the full articulation of FAP appeared in 1991 with
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Creating Intense and Curative Therapeutic
Relationships.
FAPhasevolvedsignificantlysincethatfirstpublication,withitsmanyadvances
in research and clinical technique summarized in 2008 in A Guide to FAP: Using
Awareness, Courage, Love and Behaviorism by Tsai, R. J. Kohlenberg, Kanter,
B. Kohlenberg, Follette, and Callaghan. A Guide to FAP provides an update to
the original FAP text, bringing together primary members of the community of
FAP clinicians and researchers that has developed since the original book in a
collaborativeefforttorefineandexpandupontheinitialframework.
ThecurrentvolumeoriginallywasintendedasPartIIofAGuidetoFAP.Through
theprocessofwritingandeditingthatbook,wehopedtocelebratethelargerFAP
community and the compassion and intelligence that guide its work, by including
chaptersrepresentingthecontributionsandideasofFAPresearchersandclinicians
workingwithdiversepopulationsandacrossawidevarietyofsettings.Werealized,
however,thatthiscommunityisevenlargerandmorevibrantthanwethought,and
thusthisindependentvolumewasborn.
We gratefully acknowledge the diligent efforts of all 41 contributing authors.
We would like to express our deep gratitude to these authors for their patience
and respect of the editing process which resulted in multiple drafts of chapters
being read at different times by different editors, such that authors received sev-
eral rounds of feedback. It was truly a privilege to work with them. We hope
the reader will be as inspired as we were in reading these chapters. We welcome
youtojoinourworldwideFAPcommunity,whereweshareanappreciationofthe
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potentialofindividuals,whereweworktoweaveatapestryofbehavioranalyticpre-
cisionandtherapeuticlovethatisdedicatedtoamelioratingsufferingandpromoting
transformation.
Milwaukee,WI JonathanW.Kanter
Seattle,WA MavisTsai
Seattle,WA RobertJ.Kohlenberg
Contents
1 Introduction to the Practice of Functional Analytic
Psychotherapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
JonathanW.Kanter,MavisTsai,andRobertJ.Kohlenberg
PartI FAPandPsychotherapyIntegration
2 FAPandCognitiveBehaviorTherapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
RobertJ.Kohlenberg,JonathanW.Kanter,MavisTsai,
andCristalE.Weeks
3 FAP and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT):
Similarities,Divergence,andIntegration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
BarbaraS.KohlenbergandGlennM.Callaghan
4 FAPandDialecticalBehaviorTherapy(DBT) . . . . . . . . . . . 47
JenniferWaltz,SaraJ.Landes,andGarethI.Holman
5 FAPandBehavioralActivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
AndrewM.Busch,RachelC.Manos,LauraC.Rusch,
WilliamM.Bowe,andJonathanW.Kanter
6 FAPandPsychodynamicTherapies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
IrwinS.Rosenfarb
7 FAPandFeministTherapies:ConfrontingPowerand
PrivilegeinTherapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
ChristeineTerry,MadelonY.Bolling,MariaR.Ruiz,
andKeriBrown
PartII FAPAcrossSettingsandPopulations
8 FAP-EnhancedCoupleTherapy:
PerspectivesandPossibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
AlanS.Gurman,ThomasJ.Waltz,andWilliamC.Follette
9 FAPwithSexualMinorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
MaryD.Plummer
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