Short-Term Psychotherapy: A Psychodynamic Approach

ISBN-13: 9780230551572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 264 str.

Alex Coren

Opis

This new edition reflects the growing use of short term therapy across a variety of settings. Packed with new material on key issues, the book explores the therapeutic relation, the length of therapy and the evidence base for various forms of therapy. This is key reading for anyone wishing to incorporate a psychodynamic element in their work.

Spis treści

Introduction to Second Edition.- In the Beginning: The History of Short Term Therapy.- Application of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice in Contemporary Time-Limited Therapies.- Idiom, the Therapuetic Triangle and Transference.- Assessment for Time Limited Therapy.- Differences in Therapeutic Technique between Open Ended and Time Limited Therapies.- Training and supervision.- Time Limited Therapy in Different Contexts.- Does it Work? Outcome in Focal Therapy.- Concluding Remarks.

O autorze

ALEX COREN is Director of Psychodynamic Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. He has extensive experience of working as a psychodynamic therapist in a variety of settings and has taught widely, most recently in the field of time-limited therapies. His previous publications include A Psychodynamic Approach to Education (1997).