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This classic text demonstrates psychodynamic theory and practices across the counselling process beginning middle - end. This revised sixth edition includes a new preface, updated further reading sections and a new chapter covering contemporary issues including online working, the application of a social justice and DEI agenda within the field of psychodynamic theory and practice.
Counselling in Action is a bestselling series of practical introductions designed for trainees and practitioners. Each book introduces one of the main theoretical approaches and provides a guide to the process of counselling from beginning to end. Covering theory and practice, they are trusted companions for many courses in counselling and psychotherapy and other professions such as nursing, social work and teaching.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introducing the Psychodynamic Approach
Chapter 2: The First Session
Chapter 3: After the First Session
Chapter 4: The Importance of Time and Boundaries
Chapter 5: The Middle Phase of Counselling: Reaching Deeper
Chapter 6: The Middle Phase of Counselling: The Centrality of the Therapeutic Relationship
Chapter 7: Breaks and Endings
About the author
Michael Jacobs was for many years director of the counselling and psychotherapy programme at the University of Leicester. He is one of the pioneers of psychodynamic counselling and therapy in Britain. He has written and edited over sixty books including Sigmund Freud (SAGE, 2nd edition, 2003) and D.W. Winnicott (SAGE, 1995). He has been a visiting professor at Leeds and Bournemouth Universities and has a Ph.D, his thesis being on psychoanalytic criticism of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has retired from practice as a therapist and supervisor, and as a teacher and trainer, but maintains a keen interest in the development of psychodynamic thinking and practice.
Summary
A bestselling introduction to psychodynamic theory and practice, applied across the counselling process beginning – middle – end.
