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Psychotherapy is the dialogue between patient and therapist in the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral, crisis, and mental disorders. Psychoanalysis as formulated by Sigmund Freud is the first modern form of psychotherapy and this approach has given rise to several score of psychodynamic therapies.In more recent times behavioral, cognitive, existential, humanistic, and short-term therapies have been put into practice, each with a particular focus and each giving rise to variations in structure and content of treatment as well as therapeutic outcomes. These therapy approaches relate the patient/therapist dialogue to different aspects of the therapeutic process. For instance, behavior therapies focus on the patient's conduct and cognitive therapies treat the client's thought processes.The Encyclopedia covers the major psychotherapies currently in practice as well as the classical approaches that laid the foundation for the various contemporary treatment approaches. In addition, the Encyclopedia identifies the scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of the therapies and review the theoretical basis of each therapy.
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Editors-in-Chief Michel Hersen Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon Michel Hersen, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor and Dean, School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon. Dr. Hersen is a graduate of State University of New York at Buffalo, and completed his post-doctoral training at the West Haven VA (Yale University School of Medicine Program). Dr. Hersen is past president of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He has coauthored and co-edited 133 books, and has published 223 scientific journal articles. Dr. Hersen is also coeditor of several psychological journals, including Behavior Modification, Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal, Clinical Psychology Review, Journal of Anxiety Diso