Download or read book Paradoxical Strategies in Psychotherapy written by Leon F. Seltzer and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1986 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clinically oriented guide to the use of paradoxical techniques in psychotherapy discusses the history, sources, and principal theories of this approach. It identifies the paradoxical strategies applicable to the four most common forms of therapy: psychoanalytic, behavioral, Gestalt, and systems approaches. Integrates theory with practice and surveys current research techniques. The final section offers excerpts of ten seminal papers demonstrating the step-by-step implementation of paradoxical methods