Skills in Psychodynamic Counselling & Psychotherapy

This is a step-by-step guide to the key skills and techniques of the psychodynamic approach used at each stage of the therapeutic process. It not only addresses how to implement skills, but also why they are being implemented.

List of contents

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
The First Sessions: The Therapeutic Alliance
Working with Unconscious Communication
The 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?

About the author

During her forty year career Susan Howard has worked as both a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical psychologist. Sharing knowledge about the psychodynamic approach with lay people and other professionals has been both a cornerstone and a highlight of her professional career. This included teaching psychotherapy to clinical psychologists at the University of Surrey for over two decades. Now semi-retired, she still has a small private practice focussing on supervision and training. Towards the end of her career she undertook an additional training in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) which has its roots in the psychodynamic approach. She is currently Chair of IPT UK.

Summary

This is a step-by-step guide to the key skills and techniques of the psychodynamic approach used at each stage of the therapeutic process. It not only addresses how to implement skills, but also why they are being implemented.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Howard, Howard Susan
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2017
• EAN: 9781446285664
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-8566-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series; Skills in Counselling & Psycho; Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series; Skills in Counselling & Psycho
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: counselling, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services