Pushing further the psychotherapy integration envelope.

Reviews the book, Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self: The Inner World, the Intimate World, and the World of Culture and Society by Paul Wachtel (see record [rid]2014-16201-000[/rid]). This book is yet another outstanding contribution by one of the psychotherapy integration movement’s earliest and finest proponents. A successful approach to integrative-psychotherapeutic thinking, it succinctly summarizes and organizes the author’s previous work on the theory of cyclical psychodynamics. More than a mere summary, however, it locates this theory within a broader context. This empirically more accurate and clinically useful intellectual framework attests to the socially nested nature of human development, personality, psychopathology, and the therapeutic process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)