Description
This is a step-by-step guide to the key skills and techniques of the psychodynamic approach used at each stage of the therapeutic process.
Updated in a third edition, the book includes the latest thinking on countertransference and transference; new content on issues of difference and diversity in the therapeutic relationship; online therapy; new case studies; and updates on the evidence base for psychodynamic therapy.
Table of Contents
1. THE PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH
2. THE PERSONAL JOURNEY TOWARDS SKILLED PRACTICE
3. OTHER WAYS TO ENHANCE PERSONAL GROWTH
4. WORKING WITHIN DIFFERENCE AND DIVERSITY
5. THERAPIST AS NEUROSURGEON: UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY
6. SETTING THE SCENE FOR THERAPY: THE THERAPEUTIC FRAME
7. THE FIRST SESSIONS: THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE
8. WORKING WITH UNCONSCIOUS COMMUNICATION
9. THE THEORY UNDERLYING TECHNIQUE: TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
10. TYPES OF INTERPRETATION
11. INTERPRETING THE TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
12. UNDERSTANDING AND WORKING WITH DEFENCES
13. MANAGING THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS
14. ASSESSMENT AND FORMULATION
15. WORKING ONLINE
16. HOW DO WE KNOW IT WORKS?
