Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index.
The mother-daughter bond and its implications for understanding the therapeutic relationship -- Embracing resistance and building attachment -- When parents collude with their daughter's resistance -- Challenging resistance and sustaining attachment -- The going gets tough when the patient gets angry -- When attachment to a therapist is not therapeutic: recognizing malignant regression -- Beyond idealization: fostering genuine intimacy and mutuality -- Repetition as a path to new experience -- Allowing for attachment after therapy ends.
0
Adolescent girls and young women in therapy--even those who genuinely desire change--often are highly ambivalent and difficult to engage. This book provides fresh insights and powerful clinical tools for understanding a young woman's conflict between her attachment and dependence on her parents and her efforts to be autonomous, and how this may play out in seemingly treatment-rejecting behavior. Rich case material illustrates innovative ways to embrace resistance, rather than fighting it, to build a strong therapeutic relationship that can get to the root of self-defeating patterns. The book i.
Psychotherapy with adolescent girls and young women.