Chapter 1 The Goals of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Chapter 2 Initial Evaluation of the Patient Chapter 3 Formulation Chapter 4 Listening Chapter 5 Resistance and Defense Chapter 6 Transference Chapter 7 Empathy and Countertransference Chapter 8 Interpretations Chapter 9 Working Through Chapter 10 Termination
J. Mark Thompson is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and
the director of education at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic
Institute. He is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the
UCLA School of Medicine. He is in the private practice of
psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Thompson is the author of The
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Mentalizing Tales of Dating and
Marriage.
Candace Cotlove is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the
Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and assistant clinical
professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Cotlove
is in the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Readers who approach a new introductory textbook of psychodynamic
psychotherapy with skepticism about finding freshness will be
gratified by this effort by Thompson and Cotlove. The authors have
created a multitheoretical and up-to-date textbook that succeeds in
reaching their stated intended audiences: beginning and more
experienced clinicians and those who teach psychoanalytic
psychotherapy. The Therapeutic Process succeeds in many ways.
Physically it is a tidy package of good publishing quality. It is a
pleasure to read and read again. This book is strongly recommended
as a teaching aid, especially for psychiatry resident courses and
for analytic institute extension courses.
*Journal Of Clinical Psychiatry*
The Therapeutic Process provides a broad context for an approach to
the understanding of the development of character and to the
development of the therapeutic process, all presented in a way that
engages the reader while simultaneously elucidating complex ideas.
Vast amounts of material are presented in a compelling and lucid
narrative, and in a language that is available to the sophisticated
patient, to trainees, and to educators of psychotherapy or
psychoanalysis. The authors present different theoretical models
with lucidity and balance, integrating models across many
dimensions in the explanation of concepts such as transference,
resistance and regression. Clinical vignettes then breathe life and
humanity into these theoretical concepts. As with any excellent
book, I was sorry when this one ended.
*M. Christina Benson, M.D., UCLA School of Medicine and
Neuropsychiatric Institute*
In this uncommon introduction to the psychodynamic therapeutic
process, Thompson and Cotlove bring a clarity of thought, an ease
of expression, and a richness of clinical illustrations that make
the cloudy clear and the difficult accessible. What is most
striking is their integration of the breadth of modern pluralism
with the depth of psychoanalytic dynamic experience, all in a way
that carries the reader along. If there were a Merck Manual of the
dynamic therapeutic process, this would be it.
*Warren S. Poland M.D., Author of Melting the Darkness: The Dyad
and Principles of Clinical Practice*
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