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Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy: Method of Choice in Ecumenical Pastoral Psychology by Ann V. Graber (Wyndham Hall Press) Ann Graber, professor of psychology at Graduate Theological Foundation, has written a study that can add a new chapter to our understanding of psychotherapy and its place in Western culture. The story of Sigmund Freud is well known, along with his founding with Alfred Adler of the psychoana­lytic movement in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. What is not so well known is the role played by another Viennese psychotherapist, Viktor Frankl, whose life spanned almost the entirety of the 20th century. It is true that Frankl is known to many readers from his book, Man's Search for Meaning, the gripping story of his survival in Nazi concentration camps. Not equally well known is the school of psychotherapy that he founded which was validated by that harrowing experience. In the midst of his overwhelming suffering he had an insight into the creative capacity of the human spirit in time of crisis that Freud and the early members of his psychoanalytic circle had not directly explored. More

Playing Hard at Life: A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents by Etty Cohen (Analytic Press, Inc., Publishers, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates) brings contemporary relational thinking to bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of young patients: multiply traumatized adolescents, whose understand­able hostility, resistance, even obstructiveness, render them poor candidates for treatment of any kind. Working with New York City teenagers who have survived the wars of inner-city life and Israeli teenage soldiers who have survived the wars of the Middle East , author Etty Cohen documents the extraordinary challenges of forming a treatment alliance with shattered youngsters, of engaging them psychodynamically, and of working toward a viable termination. The result is not only a poignant record of courage and commitment (on the part of patient and therapist alike), but also a valuable extension of modern trauma theory to adolescence as a developmental stage with its own challenges and requirements. More

Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition by William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick (Guilford Press) Motivational interviewing (MI) is an effective evidence‑based approach to overcoming the ambivalence that keeps many people from making desired changes in their lives, even after seeking or being referred to professional treatment. Countless clinicians have used MI since the initial publica­tion of this important book‑and theory and methods have evolved apace. Extensively rewritten, this revised and expanded second edition applies MI to the challenges of change within and beyond the addictions field, with updates from what has been learned in the last decade. The volume incorporates emerging knowledge on the process of behavior change, a growing body of outcome research, and discussions of novel applications. It is essential reading for any­one wishing to help clients get "unstuck" and free up their own resources for change. More

The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life by Daniel N. Stern (Norton) An exploration of the power of the profound but fleeting experiences at the root of interpersonal relationships. Beginning with the claim that we are psychologically alive only in the now, readers are invited to reconsider their day-to-day experiences. Certain moments of shared immediate experience—such as a knowing glance across a dinner table—are paradigmatic of what Stern shows to be the core of human experience, the three to five seconds he identifies as "the present moment." This book offers a novel response to age-old questions about the passage of time, what the future offers, and how humans change during the course of their lives. (Review pending)

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