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Psychotherapy with Adolescent Girls and Young Women
Fostering Autonomy through Attachment
Fostering Autonomy through Attachment
Elizabeth Perl
"Dr. Perl's contributions to our understanding of 'the adaptive edge of resistance' (p. 2) as well as the therapeutic challenges posed by attachment and resistance are worthy of consideration by all mental health practitioners. This text will serve as a valuable resource for practitioners working with older adolescents and young adult women in outpatient and residential settings. It should be required reading for clinicians in college-based counseling settings. All readers will benefit from Dr. Perl's candor regarding her practice experience and her respect for the relational, dynamic, and developmental processes that inform therapeutic engagement and practice."
-Clinical Social Work Journal
"An excellent addition to one's bookshelf. It is a dependable source of encouraging support and clinical wisdom. Besides reflecting on the specifics of working with girls and young women, Perl also discusses more general issues such as the limits of therapy."
-Metapsychology Online
"This book illuminates the interwoven processes of attachment, maturation, and individuation in adolescence and young adulthood through compelling, masterfully formulated clinical illustration. Seamlessly integrating theory with practice, Perl draws on her vast experience to create an unusually practical text that avoids formulaic techniques and instead articulates an orientation in which the therapeutic relationship is used to awaken developmental possibilities. Her understanding of the potentially adaptive elements in behaviors that in less skilled hands might be treated wholly as pathological usefully informs the treatment of a wide range of patients, adolescent and adult alike. A pleasure to read, this book does more than tell us what troubles our youthful patients-it leaves us with a rich appreciation of what to do about it."
-Richard J. Eichler, PhD, Director, Counseling and Psychological Services, Columbia University
-Clinical Social Work Journal
"An excellent addition to one's bookshelf. It is a dependable source of encouraging support and clinical wisdom. Besides reflecting on the specifics of working with girls and young women, Perl also discusses more general issues such as the limits of therapy."
-Metapsychology Online
"This book illuminates the interwoven processes of attachment, maturation, and individuation in adolescence and young adulthood through compelling, masterfully formulated clinical illustration. Seamlessly integrating theory with practice, Perl draws on her vast experience to create an unusually practical text that avoids formulaic techniques and instead articulates an orientation in which the therapeutic relationship is used to awaken developmental possibilities. Her understanding of the potentially adaptive elements in behaviors that in less skilled hands might be treated wholly as pathological usefully informs the treatment of a wide range of patients, adolescent and adult alike. A pleasure to read, this book does more than tell us what troubles our youthful patients-it leaves us with a rich appreciation of what to do about it."
-Richard J. Eichler, PhD, Director, Counseling and Psychological Services, Columbia University
