Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy - Selected Works of Howard Bacal

Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy brings together selected papers and book chapters by Howard Bacal, spanning 40 years as a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and psychotherapist.

List of contents

Introduction 1. My Psychoanalytic Advenute- A Quest to Conceptualize Therapeutic Efficacy 2. Notes on Some Therapeutic Challenges in the Analysis of Severely Regressed Patients 3. Optimal Responsiveness and the Therapeutic Process 4. British Object-relations Theorists and Self Psychology: Some Critical Reflections 5. The Selfobject Relationship in Psychoanalytic Treatment 6. The Psychoanalyst's Selfobject Needs and the Effect of Their Frustration on the Treatment: A New View of Countertransference 7. Shame: The Affect of Discrepancy 8. Is Empathic Attunement Always the Optimal Response? 9. The Use of Theory In Psychoanalytic Practice 10. Specificity Theory: The Evolution of a Process Theory of Psychoanalytic Treatment 11. The Budapest School's concept of supervision: Michael Balint's legacy to the development of psychoanalytic specificity theory 12. Discovering Optimal Responsiveness within the Salience of Emergent Process

About the author

Howard Bacal is a psychiatrist based in Los Angeles, USA. He has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and has more than 60 years' experience in the field.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Bacal
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032944487
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3294448-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: World Library of Mental Health
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis