Critical Interventions in Psychotherapy: From Impasse to Turning Point

by Haim Omer

Book Overview

Prolonged impasse is probably the toughest and most ubiquitous ordeal of psychotherapy. This book describes a pluralistic model of therapeutic impasse and its resolution through the carefully planned use of critical interventions--one-shot events that give a new direction to a therapy or a patient's life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393701824
• ISBN13: 9780393701821
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A great book of timeless value

Omer has a knack for cutting across a range of theoretical frameworks (psychodynamic, systemic, behavioural, strategic and narrative) to the key issue at the centre of a problem. His writing shows him to be an experienced and humane practitioner who is not self-conscious about approaching clinical problems in as creative a way as is required for change to occur.