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E-book: Evidence for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Contemporary Introduction

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This book delivers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the evidence for psychodynamic psychotherapy through explanations of research organised around therapy processes relevant to practicing clinicians and informed researchers.



This book delivers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the evidence for psychodynamic psychotherapy through explanations of research organized around therapy processes relevant to practicing clinicians and informed researchers.

Each chapter presents an event within dynamic therapy, from interpretation to termination, along with a narrative to help readers understand the why and the how of the process. Written in accessible and engaging language, each short chapter is a synthesis of findings in each topic area, going beyond subjects interesting only to researchers to aspects of practice relevant to therapists of all schools of thought.

The Evidence for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is written for therapists to pick up and put down between clients, for mental health researchers to quickly find support for a point they wish to make, and for educators to assign brief readings to bolster students’ confidence in dynamic therapy.

Introduction Section 1: Foundations
1. Defining Psychodynamic Therapy
2. Scientific Philosophies and Psychodynamic Therapy
3. Outcomes in Psychodynamic Therapy Section 2: Therapeutic Relationship
4. Transference in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
5. Countertransference in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
6. Therapeutic Alliance in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
7. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
8. Real Relationship in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Section 3: Interventions
9. Supportive Techniques in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
10. Expressive Techniques in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Section 4: Time
11. Socialization in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
12. Working Through in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
13. Termination in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
14. Time-Limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Section 5: Mechanisms
15. Insight in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
16. Defenses in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
17. Attachment in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
18. Quality of Object Relations in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
19. Mentalization in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
20. Brain Changes in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Section 6: Adaptations
21. Children and Adolescents in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
22. Indentity Diversity in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Conclusion

Kevin McCarthy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Professional Psychology at Chestnut Hill College, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Director of the Residency Psychotherapy Curriculum in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Carla Capone is a clinical psychology PsyD student at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, USA.

Liat Leibovich, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and licensed supervisor in psychotherapy and psychodiagnosis working at "Ahava" children's home, in private practice, and as a lecturer in "Mifrasim" Institute and Haifa University, Israel.