Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques

by Jon Frederickson

Written for therapists, Co-Creating Change shows what to do to help "stuck" patients (those who resist the therapy process) let go of their resistance and self-defeating behaviors and willingly co-create a relationship for change instead. Co-Creating Change includes clinical vignettes that illustrate hundreds of therapeutic impasses taken from actual sessions, showing how to understand patients and how to intervene effectively. The book provides clear, systematic steps for assessing patients' needs and intervening to develop an effective relationship for change. Co-Creating Change presents an integrative theory that uses elements of behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, emotion-focused therapy, psychoanalysis, and mindfulness. This empirically validated treatment is effective with a wide range of patients.

Genres: Psychology, Counselling, Psychoanalysis, Nonfiction, Unfinished

532 pages, Paperback

First published May 24, 2013

Reviews

[Enayat Sigaroudi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Co-Creating Change is an outstanding book in the area of ISTDP and Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy. It's a great help not only to the therapists in the above field(s), but also to the therapists in all areas of psychiatry and psychology. Even the strictly biological-minded psychiatrists may find the techniques provided in the book much helpful in the usual interviews they make. The systematic, encompassing approach to the psychotherapy, given in the book, if not the best, is one of the best practically beneficial among the numerous psychotherapy books I have read. This made me decide to translate the book into Persian, which I am doing now. Thanks to Jon Frederickson for his great help to the area of psychotherapy.

[Jeremy Bartz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful book on psychotherapy and answers many questions that I have had that others have not been able to answer. It's also the best book on ISTDP that I have ever read in that it is organized in a very efficient manner. The other books that I read on ISDTD are good but they also made me feel like I was walking into a movie that was half over. Jon starts with the basics and builds up incrementally. I have used these techniques with my patients and seen very good results. Finally a book that teaches how to help patients tap into and process the unresolved feelings that are holding them back!

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this volume Jon Frederickson provides a powerful guide to short term psychodynamic therapy that integrates deep insights gleaned from somatic therapy approaches to the traditional psychoanalytic model. He illustrates the concepts of the short term psychodynamic model (from the Davenloo model) with many excellent case examples using direct therapist and patient exchanges to illustrate each point and variation in therapy. This is a highly user-friendly approach helping to flesh out the somatic nuances of the therapy and I found it very effective.
To be perfectly fair I found some of the strategies in this model to be unappealing for myself. The model can be highly confrontational and the imagery that patients are asked to evoke is certainly not for everyone. All that being said I believe Frederickson is onto some deep truths here. I believe that the power of this approach is substantial and I have already been integrating concepts that he fleshes out here into my own practice. This is a powerful and integrative contribution to the field of psychotherapy.

[Fereshteh · Rating 5 out of 5]

یکی از بهترین کتاب ها در زمینه روانشناسی و رویکرد istdp بعد از کتاب قفل گشایی ناخودآگاه نوشته حبیب دوانلو. جلسات رواندرمانی مجددا برام تحلیل شد.

[Cameron · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 I thought the last 200 or 250 pages were great and very insightful. I appreciated all of the transcripts for examples of how things could play out in session. However, the first half of the book could have been condensed into 50 pages. There was lots of repetition.

[Kent · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book became an addictive read for me, even though I'm not a professional therapist. It's clearly written so that anyone who knows basic college-level psychology could easily grasp the ideas. Anyone with an intellectual interest in the latest ideas about the mind and brain should pick it up. After reading it, I'm able to notice when I feel anxious and I can pay attention to my breathing so that my anxiety eases up. It's not a self help book, but I've been helped. Mostly, though, I've been fascinated and given a feast for thought.

[Mahsa Hunjani · Rating 3 out of 5]

کتابیه که طبیعتا هر istdpianیی باید بخونه اما به نظرم نباید اول خوند، تکیه زیاد بر چنین کتابهای تکنیکی‌ای باعث میشه درمانگر تبدیل به تکنسین بشه، قبلش باید کتابهای نظری خوند تا یه دیدی شکل بگیره و یک بیسی به وجود بیاد و بعد سراغ این کتاب باید اومد به نظر من.

[Ian Felton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great practical, technical information.

[Malin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Väldigt informativ och bra.

[Sadegh Kh · Rating 5 out of 5]

کتاب فوق العاده ای برای روان درمانگر ها هست.
ترجمه هم مناسب و قابل فهمه.

[Alessandro Grecucci · Rating 5 out of 5]

Co-creating Change will be valuable to both young and experienced therapist. This book is practical and appropriately rooted in evidence based treatments and in Davanloo’s Intensive Short Term Dynamic Therapy tradition. Jon offers the most systematic description and up to date version of dynamic techniques for the management of mild to severe patients who resist treatments. Clinicians can learn exactly what to say moment by moment in order to help patients become free of their suffering. A treasury of therapy strategies and a must have for everyone interested in conducting effective treatments. It should be on the shelf of every therapist interested in improving his own practice. For this reason I strongly recommend it to every therapist of any orientation.

[Ivar.goksoyrgmail.com · Rating 5 out of 5]

Co-creating change is by far the most useful psychotherapy-book I have ever read.
For me it hjelps translating theory into practice with such depht and clarity. Jon Fredrickson takes you right into youre office, to all those (far too) familiar situations where you get stuck, confused, devaluated etc. He then offers a way of understanding and suggests specific interventions. I believe every psychotherapist alive will benefit from reading it, regardless of previous orientation in the field. Thanks to the author for making the effort!

[Pejman Hoviatdoost · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant! The most difficult concepts have been explained in such a clear and concise way that makes this book and absolute pleasure to read. As a therapist, learning ISTDP has been the biggest challenge that I have faced so far, and this book has made this process easier. A must read for any therapist/person who is interested in the art of therapy and in human beings in general.

[Inge-marie Kryger · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Co-Creating Change" by Jon Frederickson MSW is a great book!
It is well written, clear and inspiring to read, and it is full of wonderful transcripts that goes straight to your heart. As a therapist, this is a valuable book, that you want to return to again and again.

[Morten Christiansen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easily the best psychology book I have read, giving me a new understanding of human functioning.

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Michelle book rec. Technique / teaching focused.