A Clinical Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

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 List of illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword 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 the 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 applications of psychodynamic work 11 Brief applications of psychodynamic work 12 Challenging situations and clinical dilemmas 13 Working with difference 14 Technology and social media Appendix 1: Specimen terms and conditions Appendix 2: Specimen referral/pre-assessment questionnaire Appendix 3: Specimen end of therapy report Appendix 4: Specimen social media contract Appendix 5: Specimen privacy notice for website References Index