ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction

part 1|47 pages

Theory and research

chapter 2|32 pages

An overview of psychoanalytic theory

chapter 3|14 pages

Efficacy and outcome research

part 2|161 pages

Competences

chapter 4|30 pages

The setting and the analytic frame

chapter 5|39 pages

Assessment and formulation

chapter 6|22 pages

Anxiety and defences

chapter 7|18 pages

Mentalising

chapter 8|16 pages

Unconscious communications

chapter 9|24 pages

Transference and countertransference

chapter 10|11 pages

Endings

part 3|76 pages

Adaptations and practicalities

chapter 11|20 pages

Brief applications of psychodynamic work

chapter 12|17 pages

Challenging situations and clinical dilemmas

chapter 13|17 pages

Working with difference

chapter 14|21 pages

Technology and social media