This second edition of essential psychotherapies builds on a standard of excellence established in the first edition providing a fundamental overview of core approaches to treating individual and relational disorders the volume brings order and reason to the literally hundreds of specific techniques espoused in the literature like its predecessor the second edition takes a scholarly approach to both theory and practice insightfully integrating clinical wisdom with empirical findings . Essential psychotherapies second edition contemporary theory and practice alan s gurman phd stanley b messer phd comprehensive and user friendly this widely adopted text presents systematic expositions of the 12 most important forms of psychotherapy being practiced today. Contemporary issues in psychotherapy theory practice and research a framework for comparative study stanley b messer alan s gurman t his book presents the core theoretical and applied aspects of essential psychotherapies in contemporary clinical practice in our view essential psychotherapies are those that form. Theory practice and research a framework for comparative study stanley b messer nadine j kaslow this book presents the core theoretical and applied aspects of essential psychotherapies in contemporary clinical practice in our view essential psychotherapies are those that form