Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Description

This book is an easy-to-use guide to short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for early career practitioners and students of mental health. Written by an expert psychiatric educator, this book is meticulously designed to emphasize clarity and succinctness to facilitate quality training and practice. Developed in a reader-friendly voice, the text begins by introducing the theoretical underpinnings of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Topics include the principles of attachment theory, the dual system theory of emotion processing, decision theory, choice point analysis and a critical review of the research literature. The book then shifts its focus to a description in a manualized format of the objectives and tasks of each phase of therapy within the framework of the engagement, emotion-processing and termination phases. The book concludes with a chapter on psychodynamically informed clinical practice for non-psychotherapists. Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is the ultimate tool for the education of students, residents, trainees, and fellows in psychiatry, psychology, counseling, social work, and all other clinical mental health professions. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii The Emergence of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Alan Eppel)....Pages 1-24 The Application of Attachment Theory to Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Alan Eppel)....Pages 25-46 Understanding and Recognizing Emotion (Alan Eppel)....Pages 47-70 A Critical Review of Psychotherapy Research (Alan Eppel)....Pages 71-93 Updating the Language of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Alan Eppel)....Pages 95-109 Choice Point Analysis and Action Alternatives (Alan Eppel)....Pages 111-132 A Manual for Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Alan Eppel)....Pages 133-168 Supervision: Applying Action Alternatives (Alan Eppel)....Pages 169-193 Psychodynamically Informed Clinical Practice for Non-Psychotherapists (Alan Eppel)....Pages 195-205 Back Matter ....Pages 207-211