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Most patients in psychotherapy suffer from a multitude of specific problems. Effective treatment calls for a wide yet focused range of specific approaches. Arnold A. Lazarus, originator of multimodal therapy, shows how a variety of strategies and techniques are more likely to bring lasting change. Whether evaluating therapist-patient compatibility or choosing an appropriate technique, he stresses the need to fit the treatment to the patient.

The Practice of Multimodal Therapy offers a practical, step-by-step guide to every phase of assessment and therapy, from the initial interview to follow-up treatments aimed at preventing relapse once formal treatment is over. Transcripts of actual sessions and vignettes of crucial transactions illustrate specific strategies. Also included is a glossary of thirty-seven separate therapeutic techniques.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Preface to the First Edition(p. xi)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 Multimodal Therapy: Basic Rationale and Method(p. 13)
• Chapter 2 Basic Concepts for the Practice of Multimodal Therapy(p. 33)
• Chapter 3 The Initial Interview(p. 45)
• Chapter 4 The Multimodal Assessment-Therapy Connection(p. 67)
• Chapter 5 Determining BASIC I.D. Interactions(p. 89)
• Chapter 6 The Deserted Island Fantasy Technique(p. 103)
• Chapter 7 Relationship Factors and Client-Therapist Compatibility(p. 129)
• Chapter 8 The Selection of Techniques(p. 147)
• Chapter 9 Multimodal Marriage Therapy(p. 165)
• Chapter 10 Multimodal Sex Therapy(p. 187)
• Chapter 11 Multimodal Therapy in Special Situations: Working with Children, Groups, and the Severely Disturbed(p. 201)
• Epilogue: 1989(p. 215)
• Appendix 1 Multimodal Life History Questionnaire(p. 227)
• Appendix 2 Glossary of Principal Techniques(p. 241)
• Appendix 3 Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire(p. 255)
• Appendix 4 Structural Profile Inventory(p. 257)
• References(p. 259)
• Index(p. 271)

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Arnold Lazarus was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. His intention was to become a journalist, but he became intrigued by psychology instead. After receiving his clinical training in behavior modification with phobic patients, Lazarus became one of the leaders in promoting behavior therapy in South Africa. Increasingly unhappy with the political situation in South Africa, he brought his family to the United States in 1967 to settle in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lazarus's major contribution, "multimodal assessment," evolved out of his view that conventional therapy was too limited. He advocated technical eclecticism, claiming that assessment and therapy must include our interactive *Behavior, *Affective processes, *Sensations, *Images, *Cognitions, * Interpersonal relationships, and biological functions, which in therapy often means the use of *Drugs. In essence, Lazarus's multimodal assessment is the thorough assessment of a person's BASIC I.D. (Bowker Author Biography)