Full Description
First published in 1989. This volume reflects the extensive experience of a clinician-educator in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Dr. Werman presents a balanced, comprehensive, detailed, nondoctrinaire, and warm human treatment of the subject. He makes it clear that, while supportive psychotherapy can and should be based on psychodynamic understanding of patients, the technical principles that guide application of such understanding in supportive treatment are quite different from those guiding insight oriented therapy. Careful reflection upon the text and its many clinical examples will suggest that good supportive psychotherapy is extremely difficult and demanding of special skills.
Contents
Chapter 1 Supportive Psychotherapy and Insight-Oriented Psychotherapy; Chapter 2 Evaluating the Patient for Therapy; Chapter 3 The Therapeutic Agreement; Chapter 4 Goals of Treatment; Chapter 5 Qualifications of the Therapist; Chapter 6 Behavior of the Therapist; Chapter 7 Strategy and Tactics; Chapter 8 Transference and Countertransference; Chapter 9 Resistance; Chapter 10 Typical Situations and Techniques: Distortions of Reality; Chapter 11 Typical Situations and Techniques: Independence; Chapter 12 Typical Situations and Techniques: Impulsive Behavior and Passivity; Chapter 13 Typical Situations and Techniques: The Silent Patient; Chapter 14 The Place of the Dream in Supportive Psychotherapy; Chapter 15 Changing from Supportive to Insight-Oriented Psychotherapy; Chapter 16 Auxiliary Supportive Measures; Chapter 17 Termination and Interruption; epi Epilogue;
