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Title: Diagnostic manual takes psychoanalytic approach.(Psychiatry)(Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual)
Author: Carl Sherman
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 39Issue: 13Page: 18(1)

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Useful Servants: Psychodynamic Approaches to Clinical Practice provides a simple but not simplistic overview of nine major approaches to psychodynamic theory and psychotherapeutic practice. Each chapter includes clinical vignettes as well as an extensive case illustration of how theories may be used in the consulting room. For beginners in the field, Useful Servants makes accessible the central ideas that have shaped the discourse of psychotherapy. The advanced clinician will find this book an invaluable review and reference tool; in particular, the chapter on Lacan offers a fresh and digestible summary of the clinical application of this immensely complex thinker. ... Read more

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A volume presenting an overview of the problems specific to women, and detailing methods of treatment successfully used by the authors. It covers topics such as adolescence, self-esteem, relationships, careers, motherhood, reproductive disorders, abuse, and later life issues. ... Read more

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Psychodynamic Therapy reintroduces psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory to the practice of clinical psychology in ways that are easily understandable, practical, and immediate in their application. Huprich readily demonstrates that, contrary to what is misconstrued and taught as relic and historical artifact, Sigmund Freud’s ideas and their evolution offer a comprehensive, useful framework from which clinical psychology and psychiatry can benefit.

There are more theories and approaches to psychotherapy today than ever before. Psychodynamic Therapy attests to the fact that psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory has more to offer clinicians and patients than any other theory. Through this book, readers will gain a greater appreciation for what psychodynamic theory offers and how they may apply these ideas toward effective clinical practice.

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The field of psychodynamic counselling has developed from the psychoanalytic tradition inaugurated by Freud. At its core is a belief in the role of the unconscious in the development of conflict and disturbance, which may be resolved through the careful unfolding of the therapeutic relationship via the transference//counter-transference dynamic and within a defined setting.

By integrating theory and context, Brendan McLoughlin explores the opportunities for counsellors to develop their own practice of psychodynamic counselling. He encourages readers to look carefully at the way they work and to think about strategies to improve their skills in a specialized form of relating.

Containing 30 sections organized into five categories, this book examines areas crucial to the psychodynamic approach, including internal and external settings, working with issues around boundaries, and understanding and working with transference and counter-transference.

Addressed primarily to counsellors who are about to begin work with clients, Developing Psychodynamic Counselling will also be of interest to established counsellors and psychotherapists, counselling and clinical psychologists, social workers and nurses.

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PSYCHODYNAMICS OF LOVE AND DESIRE: Hammad Mushtaq brings forth the importance of Psychoanalytic Criticism as a tool that fetches the forgotten desires and fantasies from the ?reject-bin' of the unconscious. Psychoanalysis is one of the most important discoveries of the modern times which has enabled us to uncover the hidden mysteries of human mind and fill out the gapes of meanings and interpretation by discovering the latent layers of literary texts. The author investigates the psychodynamics of love and desire prevalent in Andrew Marvell's most famous poem To His Coy Mistress. Drawing mainly upon Sigmund Freud's concepts of the Id, the Ego and the Superego, he explores the psyche of the anonymous lover of the poem and analyzes the forces of desire and prohibition working in his the mind. The study postulates that the lover's mind is a battle ground of the Id, the Ego and the Superego, where, after a transient success of the Ego and the Superego, Id stands victorious. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Psychological projection or projection bias (including Freudian Projection) is the unconscious act of denial of a person's own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, the government, a tool, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or projecting that others have the same feelings or motives, rather than what they really think.Projection is considered one of the most profound and subtle of human psychological processes, and extremely difficult to work with, because by its nature it is hidden. It is the fundamental mechanism by which we keep ourselves uninformed about ourselves. Humor has great value in any attempt to work with projection, because humor presents a forgiving posture and thereby removes the threatening nature of any inquiry into the truth. ... Read more

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The revised edition of this best-selling book not only introduces much more material about the basic psychodynamic themes of trust and dependency, authority and autonomy, and cooperation and competition, but also makes a major break with developmental stages, preferring to show how the real issues that concern people are present at every point in life. As in the highly successful first edition, the themes are lavishly illustrated with case examples, and the useful appendix is extended. This edition contains a completely new chapter on the way the major themes appear at different points in the process of counselling and therapy. ... Read more

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Psychotherapy for the layman
For those who are new to the subject of Psychotherapy, this is an excellent introduction book which is surprisingly easy to read and comprehensible for the layman. ... Read more

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In this volume, a well-known psychoanalyst, dance therapist, and educational consultant chronicles her clinical work with deeply troubled children who fall between the cracks of our diagnostic and educational systems. These children, who frequently turn out to have been sexually or punitively abused, have no real emotional home despite the fact that they live in materially comfortable circumstances. In spite of their apparent brightness and precocity, they do not thrive in the classroom, where their disruptive behavior, tendency to act out, and fragmented learning bring them to the attention of teachers, counselors, and school psychologists. Standard diagnoses do not explain their plight; such children are neither retarded nor learning disabled nor neurotic.

Through poignant case studies, Siegel reviews the developmental circumstances that bring these middle-class waifs to a critical impasse with both their parents and the educational establishment. Time and again she discovers that the children's expectable developmental course has been derailed by their accommodation to parental abuse and deformed parental expectations. Psychodynamic treatment invariably uncovers the maladaptive solutions that fueled the children's behavioral and learning disturbances.

This volume speaks to a broad clinical and non-clinical readership: psychoanalytic clinicians; psychologists; counselors; social workers; art, dance, and music therapists; special education teachers; child therapists; and child care workers. They will all join in admiration of Siegel's treatment approach which focuses on what is healthy in deeply traumatized children and, in so doing, helps debunk the myth of the untreatable child. ... Read more

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This book advances a new understanding of producing change in psychotherapy. It proposes the concept of interaction structure, repeated mutually influencing interactions between therapist and patient that are a fundamental aspect of therapeutic action. ... Read more

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Excellent textbook of Psychoanalysis
Jones has nicely blended research, theory and clinical experience into a highly readable, even compelling, explication of a sometimes obscurely presented subject.This book is valuable to an analyst who wants to freshen up his psychodynamics as well as a basic textbook for Psychiatric Residents; and is accessible to many others in the mental health fields who are looking for serious insight into psychoanalytically-derived clinical practice.

Psychoanalystic Therapy
So far, this book is rather confusing. It is a difficult read but it does give important information for anyone in the mental health field. To fully understand it, one must read it more than once.

Must reading for any psychoanalytic psychotherapist
This book should be required reading for anyone who practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy, from students to senior practitioners. Professor Jones writes clearly and eloquently, elucidating the central principles of contemporary psychoanalytic technique. These principles are illustrated throughout with vivid case examples-- not the contrived examples provided by other analytic writers, but verbatim transcripts from actual psychotherapy sessions, obtained from video and audio tapes of real therapists at work. This is the book that FINALLY gives us a window into what really goes on behind the closed doors of the therapy office. Jones provides case examples illustrating not only successful interventions, but also therapeutic mistakes and failures.

The book is based on the author's years of painstaking research into the psychoanalytic process, and reflects the distilled wisdom of thousands of hours of psychoanalytic investigation. It is wide ranging in scope, scholarly, authoritative, but never pedantic. It belongs on every clinician's bookshelf.

Finally, a clear explanation of psychoanalytic psychotherapy
As a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist, I want to highly recommend this book to those who feel they want to become even more effective intheir therapeutic work. First, this book is clearly written and full ofillustrations of more and less effective therapeutic interventions. Second, it is based on current emperical research as well as the vastclinical basis of technique.And perhaps most importantly it introduces anew refinement in understanding what makes for helpful change!

I havefound this book has already influenced how I work---adding to my repetoireof interventions, expanding my understanding of certain interactions that Ihave repeatedly with various patients, and augmenting my confidence in myanalytic approach to longer term work with patients hoping to make morecharacterologic changes.

It is a book I expect I will return to over andover as it contains very pragmatic sections on technique as well assummaries of a number of long term psychotherapies, how they went and whatthe emperical analysis showed about their outcomes.A very reader friendlybook.

The Finest Book Yet Written On Psychoanalytic Therapy
THERAPEUTIC ACTION by Enrico Jones is the one book I most wished I'd had at my side during my graduate training and formative years as a practicingclinician. It would have helped me more than countless hours of reading,reflection, and instruction.

Simply put, THERAPEUTIC ACTION is amasterpiece which far exceeds in scholarship, usefulness, and clarity ofinsight any work available for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, clinicalsocial workers, pastoral or marriage, family, and child counselors,graduate students or trainees hoping to enter any of these fields and thosewho instruct them.

Professor Jones brings superb clarity to such vitalsubjects as bringing defenses and unconscious mental content intoawareness; creating opportunities for self-reflection; intervention asassessment; how to identify patients likely to benefit from psychoanalytictherapy; and the uses and limitations of supportive approaches. He offersan innovative concept of therapeutic action called "interactionstructures" which along with compelling verbatim exchanges betweentherapist and patient shed substantial light on what actually occurs in thesession itself.

This superb book is based on the author's painstakingresearch and longterm clinical experience and is written in a wonderfullyclear way. It is a must-read for any clinician interested in perfecting thecore competencies and comprehending the key concepts of psychodynamictherapy. ... Read more

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In each of the twenty-three stories, we are afforded a glimpse of the two actors in the drama as they meet and size up one another, negotiate and renegotiate their agreement to collaborate, work through and play through the shifting positive and negative transferences and countertransferences toward a working relationship, experience both frustrations and triumphs as they persevere in attempts to promote healing and growth. These are exciting narratives, documenting the ethic that underlies the psychoanalytic vision and the animation that it affords both participants. ... Read more

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This authoritative source book on the learning and creative application of the systems psychodynamic perspectives defines the field, presenting the key concepts, models, and social methodologies that derive from it, together with their theoretical and conceptual underpinnings in psychoanalysis, group relations, and opensystems therapy. ... Read more