TY - JOUR AU - Greenfield, Shelly F. AB - PSYCHOTHERAPY Editor: Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH A Fourth Wave of Psychotherapies: Moving Beyond Recovery Toward Well-Being John R. Peteet, MD Keywords: positive psychology, psychotherapy, recovery, values, worldview s psychotherapies have proliferated, a number of how and when to implement them, their proposed addition to authors have recently distinguished three waves the already defined three-wave model could help clarify the Aof approaches, based on historical, theoretical continually expanding and often fragmenting field of mental and practical considerations. First-wave therapies, which health interventions. include psychodynamic therapy, aim at enhancing auton- This fourth wave of approaches has emerged alongside omy and mastery through insight, and rely on the therapist other, related developments. The increasingly technical and as expert. A second wave of therapies, including cognitive- specialized nature of scientific medicine has led to warnings 2 3 behavioral therapy (CBT), gestalt therapy, and family sys- to recognize the social and moral context of whole-person tems theory, are more present and problem focused. They care, which can be endangered by a purely technical, scientific arealsomoretheorydriventhan third-wave therapies, approach. Critics of contemporary end-of-life care have called which focus more on solutions and conscious action, and on physicians to shift their focus from treating illness TI - A Fourth Wave of Psychotherapies: Moving Beyond Recovery Toward Well-Being JF - Harvard Review of Psychiatry DO - 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000155 DA - 2018-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/a-fourth-wave-of-psychotherapies-moving-beyond-recovery-toward-well-q3jea7ZWH2 SP - 90 EP - 95 VL - Publish Ahead of Print IS - DP - DeepDyve ER -