Full Description
Case Formulation in Contemporary Psychotherapy presents a new approach to case conceptualization and case formulation, making meaning from each clinical case and using every piece of data available.
Robert Mendelsohn explains his core basic principles for case formulation, allowing the clinician to assess a case quickly and accurately. This book includes a discussion of the contributions of transference and countertransference, inducement and enactment, as well as the use of paradigmatic techniques, humor, and language. The processes presented, alongside vignettes illustrating their use, will allow clinicians to decode the meaning of all clinical interaction and to communicate that meaning in a helpful way to students and patients.
Providing a new way to access a full range of conscious and preconscious clinical information, Case Formulation in Contemporary Psychotherapy will be essential reading for mental health professionals including psychotherapists and psychodynamic and psychoanalytic clinicians in practice and in training. It will also be of great interest to students of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Contents
Foreword by Robert F. Bornstein
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1
The History of Case Formulation and Treatment Planning; From Freud (1918) to W. Reich, (1946) From Reich to T. Reik, (1948, 1959) from Reik to Bion, (1962, 1976) and Winnicott, (1960, 1971) to Billow & Mendelsohn, (1990)
Chapter 2
The Fourteen Clinical Processes Involved in My Approach to Case Formulation including: Countertransference, Inducement, Enactment, Projective Identification, Gratuitous Remarks, The Clinical Use of Many Processes Including Paradigmatic Techniques (And 'My Technical Use of My 'Sense of Humor')
Chapter 3
Early Clinical Examples of My Knowing Without Consciously Knowing What I Unconsciously Knew
Chapter 4
What Is Parallel Process and How Does It Enrich Our Understanding of Psychodynamic Case Formulation and the Preconscious Transmission of Clinical Data?
Chapter 5
Magical Processes in Psychotherapy and The Magic of Dream Interpretation
Chapter 6
Magical Processes in Case Consultation, Case Formulation and Treatment Planning
Chapter 7
Conclusion: Creating A Space for Magic to Occur/Teaching the Magic to Others
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