Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Integration of Psychology and Christianity

2: A Christian View of Persons

The Psychodynamic Psychologies

3: Classical Psychoanalysis

4: Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapies

The Cognitive and Behavioral Psychologies

5: Behavior Therapy

6: Cognitive Therapy

The Humanistic and Experiential Psychologies

7: Person-Centered Therapy

8: Experiential Therapies

The Systemic Psychologies

9: Family Systems Theory and Therapy

10: Community Psychology and Preventative Intervention Strategies

Toward Christian Psychologies

11: Responsible Eclecticism and the Challenges of Contemporary Practice

12: Christian Psychotherapy and the Person of the Christian Psychotherapist

Notes

Author Index

Subject Index

About the Authors

About CAPS

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The wide variety of psychotherapies that psychologists and students of psychology face can make for a confusing picture. The level of complexity is multiplied for Christians since they must ask how a particular psychotherapy fits (or doesn?t fit) with a Christian understanding of persons and their suffering. In this expanded and thoroughly update edition, Stanton Jones and Richard Butman continue to offer a careful analysis and penetrating critiques of the myriad of psychotherapies now current in the field of psychology including:
Classical Psychoanalysis
Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
Behavior Therapy
Cognitive Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy
Experiential Therapies
Family Systems Theory and Therapy

Two valuable new chapters have been added: "Community Psychology and Preventative Intervention Strategies" and "Christian Psychotherapy and the Person of the Christian Psychotherapist." Opening and closing chapters discuss foundational concerns on the integration of psychology and theology and present the authors' call for a "responsible eclecticism." Modern Psychotherapies remains an indispensable resource.