Main description:

A Clinical Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy serves as an accessible and applied introduction to psychodynamic psychotherapy.

The book is a resource for psychodynamic psychotherapy that gives helpful and practical guidelines around a range of patient presentations and clinical dilemmas. It focuses on contemporary issues facing psychodynamic psychotherapy practice, including issues around research, neuroscience, mentalising, working with diversity and difference, brief psychotherapy adaptations and the use of social media and technology. The book is underpinned by the psychodynamic competence framework that is implicit in best psychodynamic practice. The book includes a foreword by Prof. Peter Fonagy that outlines the unique features of psychodynamic psychotherapy that make it still so relevant to clinical practice today.

The book will be beneficial for students, trainees and qualified clinicians in psychotherapy, psychology, counselling, psychiatry and other allied professions.

Contents:

1: Introduction; PART 1: THEORY AND RESEARCH; 2: An overview of psychoanalytic theory; 3: Efficacy and outcome research; PART 2: COMPETENCES; 4: The setting and analytic frame; 5: Assessment and formulation; 6: Anxiety and defences; 7: Mentalising; 8: Unconscious communications; 9: Transference and countertransference; 10: Endings; PART 3: ADAPTATIONS AND PRACTICALITIES; 11: Brief application of psychodynamic work; 12: Challenging situations and clinical dilemmas; 13: Working with difference; 14: Technology and social media