Skills in psychodynamic counselling & psychotherapy/
Susan Howard
- New Delhi: SAGE, c2017.
- 203 p. ; 25 cm.
- (Skills in counselling & psychotherapy) .
The psychodynamic approach -- Becoming a therapist: the personal journey towards skilled practice -- Becoming a therapist: other ways to enhance personal growth -- Therapist as neurosurgeon: understanding the brain and the implications for psychotherapy -- Setting the scene for therapy: the therapeutic frame -- First sessions: the therapeutic alliance -- Working with unconscious communication -- Theory underlying technique: transference and countertransference -- Types of interpretation -- Interpreting the transference and countertransference -- Understanding and working with defences -- Managing the therapeutic process -- Assessment and formulation -- How do we know it works? And why has it been so difficult to spread the good news?