Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text

Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text takes a hands-on approach,
focusing on the fundamental principles and basic features of the psychodynamic
modality for the benefit of training directors and trainees in a variety of
mental health fields. This new, meticulously updated edition offers the latest
research on the foundations, techniques, and efficacy of psychodynamic
psychotherapy, while still providing the basic information on assessment,
indications, formulations, therapist interventions, goals of therapy, and
mechanisms of therapeutic action that all mental health professionals require in
order to provide excellent care. The author, one of the foremost authorities on
psychotherapy, recognizes the common dilemmas experienced by beginning
therapists and students, and he has designed the book so that the case
examples-and principles illustrated by those examples-are directly applicable to
learning and practice. Noteworthy and unique to this volume are the expanded
videos, which allows students to see clinical concepts in action through the use
of carefully constructed clinical vignettes.

Each chapter has been
thoroughly revised, and the new edition boasts a substantial amount of new
material and enhanced coverage. Literature on the empirical evidence
supporting the efficacy of psychodynamic therapy, increasingly the focus of
rigorous clinical trials, has been added to Chapter 2. The videos, originally
provided as a companion DVD and now available online, have been expanded with
two new case study vignettes and now include two vignettes of the same patient
during and at the termination of therapy. This satisfies the need of trainees in
psychotherapy to study senior clinicians at work and to see how the concepts and
data in the field are applied to individual treatments. The recent ubiquity of
texting, e-mailing, social media, and other cyberspace communications in the
practice of psychotherapy is covered in Chapter 3. Practical, hands-on
applications, such as case write-ups, oral presentations at case conferences,
written examinations, oral examinations, videotaped recordings and direct
observations, audiotape recordings, and supervision are covered in depth to help
build solid skills and broad knowledge.

As useful to educators as it is
to students, Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy explains the theoretical
foundations and elucidates the reasoning behind the psychotherapist's actions in
a wide variety of clinical situations, challenging the reader to build empathy
and competency.