Practicing Psychotherapy: A Case Book

How can one engage the hostile or the frightened patient or the patient incapacitated by shame or by physical illness? How can a clinician focus a therapy that threatens to wander indefinitely and unproductively: When and how should one use short-term therapy?Even experienced, talented therapists frequently find themselves stymied, often for prolonged periods of time, by problems commonly encountered in an office-based practice. Here, along with detailed case examples, is a hands-on demonstration of how to deal with such complex, at times seemingly intractable, problems.Basch's technique is a psychodynamic approach that also embraces cognitive and behavioral therapy. It correlates what is heard and seen in the therapist's consulting room with our knowledge of normal infant and child development. This book shows how Basch's developmental method can be used even in short-term therapy to deal with complex problems. The book also includes extensive examples of the supervisory process, demonstrating how to make the best use of this model for therapy, both as supervisor and supervisee.Basch's first book, Doing Psychotherapy, has become a standard introductory text and his second book, Understanding Psychotherapy: The Science Behind the Art, has gained widespread support and garnered much acclaim. Building on the principles elaborated in his previous books, this eminently practical new book takes readers to a new level of understanding.

Table of Contents:
* Introduction The Developmental Model * The Primacy of Affect * Anger Blocking Intimacy: George Warren * The Search for Competence * Restoring a Patients Self-Esteem: Harriet Snow * Building Psychic Structure: Roberta Young The Hierarchy Of Selfobject Experiences * The Therapist as an Idealized Authority: Helen Pellman * Resistance to Idealization: Vincent Vinci Choosing A Therapeutic Approach * Focusing the Patient: Ms. Aye * The Evolution of the Sense of Self * Behind Anxiety: Ms. Bee * A Psychoneurotic Patient: Ms. See * Insight Therapy: Regressive and Progressive Dealing With Shame * A Theory That Failed: Herbert Boltz * A Theory That Worked: John Washer * Defensive Entitlement: Clarise Enpidee * Affective Growth Through Parenthood: Lenore Bell Dealing With Anger * The Initial Interview * Analysis of the Initial Interview * Empathic Understanding The Emergent Self In Therapy * Supervisory Consultation: Linda Mallory Restructuring The Self * An Extended Supervision: Bob Burdon * Postscript Brief Psychotherapy * A Struggle for Independence: Marcus Lavelle * Big Problem/Little Time: Renee Lobach * Guilt or Anger? Robert Candel * A Case of Pseudo-Paranoia: Merrill Sherman * Envoi

About the Author :
Michael Franz Basch, M.D., is the Cynthia Oudejans Harris, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College in Chicago, the training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is in the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He is the author of Doing Psychotherapy (1980), Understanding Psychotherapy: The Science Behind the Art (1988), and Practicing Psychotherapy: A Casebook (1992).