The 2nd Edition of Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the highly successful practice-oriented handbook designed to demystify psychoanalytic psychotherapy, is updated and revised to reflect the latest developments in the field.
Updated edition of an extremely successful textbook in its field, featuring numerous updates to reflect the latest research and evidence base
Demystifies the processes underpinning psychoanalytic psychotherapy, particularly the development of the analytic attitude guided by principles of clinical technique
Provides step-by-step guidance in key areas such as how to conduct assessments, how to formulate cases in psychodynamic terms and how to approach endings
The author is a leader in the field - she is General Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis book series and a former editor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
About the Author vii
Preface ix
Introduction: Is Freud Dead? 1
1 Brave New Worlds: A Psychoanalysis Fit for the Twenty-First Century 12
2 An Overview of the Schools of Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice 28
3 The Process of Psychic Change 75
4 The Analytic Setting and the Analytic Attitude 94
5 Assessment and Formulation 128
6 Unconscious Communication 169
7 Defences and Resistance 194
8 Transference and Countertransference 219
9 Working with Endings 269
Conclusion: The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at Work 292
References 302
Index 327
