Using the insights in this powerful resource, clinicians will help clients gain greater psychological flexibility, connect with their values and goals, and create a life that is purposeful, meaningful, and vital.
Jason M. Stewart, PsyD, is a clinical and sport psychologist in
private practice. His areas of focus are men's issues, sport
performance enhancement, and addictions/compulsions. He earned a
doctorate at Yeshiva University and has postdoctoral training in
psychoanalytic, acceptance- and mindfulness-based, and integrative
harm reduction psychotherapies.Foreword writer Steven C. Hayes,
PhD, is Nevada Foundation Professor in the department of psychology
at the University of Nevada. An author of thirty-four books and
more than 470 scientific articles, he has shown in his research how
language and thought lead to human suffering, and has developed
acceptance and commitment therapy, a powerful therapy method that
is useful in a wide variety of areas. Hayes has been president of
several scientific societies and has received several national
awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy.
Afterword writer George Stricker, PhD, is professor of psychology
at the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy
University Washington, DC. He is the recipient of a number of
awards for his contributions to psychology, including the Karl
Heiser Award for Advocacy in 1996 from the American Psychological
Association. He has served as the president of the Division of
Clinical Psychology at the American Psychological Association, the
Society for Personality Assessment, the New York State
Psychological Association, and the National Council of Schools of
Professional Psychology. Stricker is the author or editor of over
twenty books and more than one hundred journal articles. His most
recent books include Psychotherapy Integration, A Case Book of
Psychotherapy Integration with Jerry Gold, and The Scientific
Practice of Professional Psychology with Steven Trierweiler. His
principal interests are psychotherapy integration, clinical
training, and ethics.
"Acceptance and mindfulness have always been integral to
therapeutic change, but their roles and applications have only been
recently recognized. Editor Jason Stewart's new book offers a
penetrating and insightful look at the natural overlap and
differences between newly emerged mindfulness-based therapies and
psychodynamic work. This exploration reveals a rich potential for
clinicians who want to support and strengthen their psychodynamic
work through the integration of mindfulness-based approaches."
--Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
"Psychoanalysis, mindfulness-based psychotherapies, and traditional
Buddhist meditation practices have evolved from existing in
non-communicating, conceptually dissociated spheres through a stage
of over-eager merger and identification, in which each was reduced
to a variation of 'evenly hovering attention' in the service of a
presumed common goal of engaging the totality of the mind. At last,
we are moving into a more sophisticated and challenging stage where
genuine differences and conflicts are allowed to emerge and be
meaningfully engaged. This volume is a welcome addition to that
process of genuine engagement and mutual influence."
--Barry Magid, MD, faculty at The Stephen Mitchell Center for
Relational Studies and author of Nothing Is Hidden: The Psychology
of Zen Koans and Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen
and Psychoanalysis
"As the evidence in support of Freud's, Bowlby's, and Winnicott's
(among many others') works accumulates through mindfulness
research, the neuroscience of psychotherapy, and interpersonal
neurobiology, Jason Stewart's book comes along as a practical and
engrossing guide to an ongoing synthesis of ancient and modern
wisdom aimed at addressing human suffering. He has assembled an
impressive group of authors who remind us that when we are doing
psychoanalysis, engaging clients in the process of systematic
desensitization, or teaching mindfulness meditation, we are all
involved in deeply interpersonal encounters with the intention of
helping people 'pay attention' and, eventually, change their brains
in salubrious ways. The highest praise I can give this book is that
it will become required reading for my current and future
psychotherapy students and supervisees."
--Mark B. Andersen, PhD, professor and coordinator of the doctoral
program in applied psychology at Victoria University, Melbourne,
Australia
"In this creative and scholarly volume, Stewart brings the
integration of mindfulness, acceptance, and relational
psychodynamic therapy to a new level. [The contributors'] combined
vision is balanced, flexible, and mature. Clinicians new to either
psychoanalytic inquiry or mindfulness will quickly find themselves
drawn into this exciting conversation through compelling case
studies, historical background material, and practical discussion
about clinical decision-making. Lynchpin issues, such as
non-duality, compassion, mentalization, and the pursuit of a valued
life, receive special attention. This book will invite readers to
grow their work for years to come."
--Christopher Germer, PhD, clinical instructor at Harvard Medical
School, coeditor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, and author of
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
"While the world of psychotherapy has historically been divided
into separate spheres of isolated schools, modalities, and
orientations, we increasingly witness dialogue, borrowing,
recognition of commonality, and even efforts toward integration.
Jason Stewart has gathered a first-rate lineup of contributors who
are known for their serious scholarship on, and leadership in,
psychotherapy integration from a broadly relational psychodynamic
perspective. The book will advance this important academic and
professional trend."
--Lewis Aron, PhD, director at the New York University postdoctoral
program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and author of A Meeting
of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis
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