Case Formulation in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781032452159 / Twarda / 2023 / 208 str.

Robert Mendelsohn

Opis

Case Formulation in Contemporary Psychotherapy presents a new approach to case conceptualization and case formulation, making meaning from each clinical case and using every piece of data available.

Recenzje

"A professor's professor, Dr. Mendelsohn brings one of his legendary courses to the world outside of his beloved school. With this book, he extends Theodore Reik's legacy and provides a contemporary psychoanalytic guide to case formulation and treatment planning that is at once practical and magical." J. Christopher Muran, Ph.D., Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University; Mount Sinai Beth Israel Psychotherapy Research Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University

"Robert Mendelsohn is a teacher and clinician par excellence, having taught clinical psychology at Adelphi　University for five decades. Read this book and learn from a clinician who is a master at formulating the client’s problems and showing us how to solve them!" Jacques Barber, Dean, Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, New York

Spis treści

Foreword by Robert F. Bornstein

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1

The History of Case Formulation and Treatment Planning; From Freud (1918) to W. Reich, (1946) From Reich to T. Reik, (1948, 1959) from Reik to Bion, (1962, 1976) and Winnicott, (1960, 1971) to Billow & Mendelsohn, (1990)

Chapter 2

The Fourteen Clinical Processes Involved in My Approach to Case Formulation including: Countertransference, Inducement, Enactment, Projective Identification, Gratuitous Remarks, The Clinical Use of Many Processes Including Paradigmatic Techniques (And ’My Technical Use of My ‘Sense of Humor’)

Chapter 3

Early Clinical Examples of My Knowing Without Consciously Knowing What I Unconsciously Knew

Chapter 4

What Is Parallel Process and How Does It Enrich Our Understanding of Psychodynamic Case Formulation and the Preconscious Transmission of Clinical Data?

Chapter 5

Magical Processes in Psychotherapy and The Magic of Dream Interpretation

Chapter 6

Magical Processes in Case Consultation, Case Formulation and Treatment Planning

Chapter 7

Conclusion: Creating A Space for Magic to Occur/Teaching the Magic to Others

About The Author

O autorze

Robert Mendelsohn (Ph.D., ABPP) is Professor of Psychology and former Dean at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology of Adelphi University, USA. He has been teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy to mental health professionals for almost 50 years.