Jefferson A. Singer Ph.D.

Personality and Psychotherapy

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If you have picked up this book and are reading this first sentence, then it is likely we share a common interest and concern, namely, that in our sweeping embrace of biological advances and cognitive –behavioral models, psychology and psychotherapy may be losing sight of the person. What happens to our efforts to understand an individual’s life as we turn our emphasis more and more to problems of diminished neural firing or dysfunctional patterns of thoughts? Is there still a scientific and therapeutic justification for seeing individuals as whole people, multileveled, complex, and nonreducible to their “working parts”?

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