Changing Character: Short-Term Anxiety-Regulating Psychotherapy for Restructuring Defenses, Affects, and Attachment » (1st Edition)

Leigh McCullough Vaillant, Ph.D., is clinical assistant professor and director of the Short-Term Psychotherapy Research Program at Harvard Medical School. She has published extensively on therapy, training, and research in short-term dynamic psychotherapy and gives training seminars worldwide. She has served as research director of Beth Israel Medical Center’s Short-Term Psychotherapy Research Program, is a visiting professor at the University of Trondheim in Norway, and has a clinical practice in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Changing Character at its heart is about emotion—how to draw it out, recognize it and make it conscious, follow its lead and, equally important, use cognition to guide, control, and direct our emotional lives. This treatment manual teaches therapists time-efficient techniques for changing character and helping their patients live mindfully with themselves and others through adaptive responses to conflictual experiences.