Understanding Therapeutic Action
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Understanding Therapeutic Action: Psychodynamic Concepts of Cure(15 Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

Understanding Therapeutic Action: Psychodynamic Concepts of Cure(15 Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)


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Most of the existing psychodynamic literature approaches the treatment process from one particular theoretical perspective or another. Yet, what contemporary psychotherapists need most is practical information that transcends individual perspectives. After all, they must be able to treat patients who suffer from structural conflct, structural deficit, and relational conflict, and they must be able to understand the theories of therapeutic action associated with these concepts of psychopathology in relation to one another. Understanding Therapeutic Action: Psychodynamic Concepts of Cure both surveys different theories of therapeutic action and offers an integrative model of treatment. Editor Lawrence E. Lifson has brought together contributors who are among the leading theoreticians and practitioners of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Their chapters cover all the major perspectives on therapeutic action and are ogranized into sections covering structural and object relations theories; the self as the focus of therapeutic action; and an integrative approach to the concept of cure. The emphasis throughout is on the translation of theory in clinical practice, with attention given to the contributions of patient and therapist alike in the curative process. Providing clinicians with a comprehensive overview and synthesis of the different models of therapeutic action, this collection is an illuminating exercise in comparative psychotherapy and a valuable tool for enhancing the applicability and effectiveness of clinical work.

Table of Contents:
I. Therapeutic Structure and Structural Change 1. Toward a New Understanding of Neutrality - Anne Alonso 2. The Therapeutic Alliance and the Real Relationship in the Analytic Process - W. W. Meissner 3. Trauma, Memory, and the Therapeutic Setting - Arnold H. Modell 4. The Importance of Diagnosis in Facilitating the Therapeutic Action of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of an Adolescent - Otto F. Kernberg 5. Transitional Objects: Selfobjects, Real Objects, and the Process of Change in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - Gerald Adler II. The Self as the Focus of the Therapeutic Action 6. Some General Principles of Psychianalytic Psychotherapy: A Self-Psychological Perspectives - Paul H. Ornstein and Anna Ornstein 7. Speaking in the Interpretive Mode and Feeling Understood: Crucial Aspects of the Therapeutic Action in Psychotherapy - Anna Ornstein and Paul H. Ornstein 8. Mode of Therapeutic Action - Joseph D. Lichtenberg 9. Optimal Responsiveness: Its Role in Psychic Growth and Change - Judith Guss Teicholz III. An Integrative Approach to the Concept of Cure 10. When Interpretations Fail: A New Look at the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis - Stephen A. Mitchell 11. The Therapeutic Action of Play in the Curative Process - James M. Herzog 12. Process with Involvement: The Interpretation of Affect - Paul L. Russell 13. Listening to Affect: Interpersonal Aspects of Affective Resonance in Psychoanalytic Treatment - George G. Fishman 14. From Structural Conflict to Relational Conflict: A Contemporary Model of Therapeutic Action - Martha Stark

About the Author :
A faculty member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, Lawrence E. Lifson, M.D., is a Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Lifson practices psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in West Newton, MA.

Review :
"How does psychotherapy heal? In attempting to answer this question, this collection transcends the polemics generated by the dichotomies of insight versus empathy, interpretation versus affirmation, and recall versus reconstruction. The contributions of 14 distinguished psychoanalysts are anchored in the established idiom of transference, therapeutic alliance, interpretation, and transformation of memory through its recontextualization. Yet they present a bevy of new concepts such as relational conflict, psychological provision, optimal responsiveness, safe-enough clinical environment, and the patient's inclination toward 'self-righting.' The result of this tension between tradition and innovation is a clinical document that is theoretically provocative, technically illuminating, and intellectually delicious!" - Salman Akhtar, M.D., Training Analyst, Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute "This fine collection of 14 original, well-writen essays presents a powerfully informative account of current thinking about therapeutic interventions and their consequences. The many clinical vignettes richly illustrate the contributors' thoughtful and creative discussions." - Anton O. Kris, M.D., Training Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute "As psychoanalysis enters its second century, its mode of therapeutic action remains steeped in mystery. This splendid new volume offers a variety of perspectives on this mystery, so that the reader comes away enriched by new understanding. Eschewing a single reductive vision, the editor has carefully selected contributors who reflect the current pluralism within psychoanalysis. The resulting collection will be equally useful to beginners and experienced analysts." - Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., Callaway Distinguished Professor of Psychoanalysis, The Menninger Clinic


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780881632057
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Analytic Press,U.S.
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Psychodynamic Concepts of Cure
  • ISBN-10: 0881632058
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 1996
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Series Title: 15 Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
  • Width: 152 mm


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