Main description:

*Successful work for practitioners and students; lower price in paper will facilitate course use.
*Practical, concise, innovative guide to psychodynamic psychotherapy, perfect for new therapists.
*Reviews the evidence base and offers clear-cut clinical guidelines (in a field that can be overly abstract).
*A clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist bring a broad, balanced perspective.

Contents:

Introduction
I. Context
1. Why Dynamic Psychotherapy?
2. Pragmatic Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Conceptual Model and Techniques
3. The Other Psychotherapies
II. Opening Phase
4. The Therapeutic Alliance: Goal, Task, and Bond
5. Core Psychodynamic Problems, Part I
6. Core Psychodynamic Problems, Part II
7. Psychodynamic Formulation
8. Defining a Focus and Setting Goals
III. Middle Phase
9. The Narrative: Building a Personal Story
10. Change
11. Moments in Psychotherapy
12. Therapist Strengths, or Managing Your Countertransference
IV. Combining Treatments
13. Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy
14. The Patient Is Part of a Family, with Ellen Berman
V. Ending
15. Goals and Termination