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Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy - Selected Works of Howard Bacal

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

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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


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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.


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