A Casebook of Psychotherapy Practice with Challenging Patients
A Casebook of Psychotherapy Practice with Challenging Patients

Author: Robert Waska

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1317590821

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Most contemporary psychoanalysts and psychotherapists see each patient once or twice a week at most. As many patients have reached a marked state of distress before seeking treatment, this gives the analyst a difficult task to accomplish in what is a limited amount of time. A Casebook of Psychotherapy Practice with Challenging Patients: A modern Kleinian approach sets out a model for working with quite significantly disturbed, distressed, or resistant patients in a very limited time, which Robert Waska has termed "Modern Kleinian Therapy." Each chapter provides a vivid look into the moment-to-moment workings of a contemporary Kleinian focus on understanding projective identification, enactment, and acting out as well as the careful and thoughtful interpretive work necessary in these complex clinical situations. Individual psychotherapeutic work is represented throughout the book alongside instructive reports of psychoanalytic work with disturbed couples, and the more challenging patient is illustrated with several comprehensive reviews of films that follow such hard-to-reach individuals. A Casebook of Psychotherapy Practice with Challenging Patients: A modern Kleinian approach is filled with a combination of contemporary theory building, a wealth of clinical vignettes, and practical advice. It is a hands-on guide for psychoanalysts and therapists who need to get to grips with complex psychoanalytic concepts in a short time and shows the therapeutic power the Modern Kleinian Therapy approach can have and how it can enable them to work most effectively with difficult patients. Robert Waska LPCC, MFT, PhD is an analytic member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and conducts a full-time private psychoanalytic practice for individuals and couples in San Francisco and Marin County, California. He is the author of thirteen published textbooks on Kleinian psychoanalytic theory and technique, is a contributing author for three psychology texts, and has published over a hundred articles in professional journals.

Practicing Psychodynamic Therapy
Practicing Psychodynamic Therapy

Author: Richard F. Summers

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2014-10-31

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1462517188

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This volume presents 12 highly instructive case studies grounded in the evidence-based psychodynamic therapy model developed by Richard F. Summers and Jacques P. Barber. Bringing clinical concepts vividly to life, each case describes the patient's history and presenting problems and takes the reader through psychodynamic formulation, treatment planning, and the entire course of therapy, including the challenges of termination. The cases address a variety of core psychodynamic problems, with outcomes ranging from very successful to equivocal. The emotional experience of the therapist is explored throughout. Commentary from Summers and Barber on every case highlights important points and key clinical dilemmas. See also the authored book Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, in which Summers and Barber comprehensively describe their therapeutic model.

The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis
The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis

Author: Noreen Giffney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0429856938

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We are fed at the breast of culture, not wholly but to differing degrees. The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic focuses on the formative influence of cultural objects in our lives, and the contribution such experiences make to our mental health and overall wellbeing. The book introduces “the culture-breast”, a new clinical concept, to explore the central importance played by cultural objects in the psychical lives of patients and psychoanalytic clinical practitioners inside and outside the consulting room. Bringing together clinical writings from psychoanalysis and cultural objects from the applied fields of film, art, literature and music, the book also makes an argument for the usefulness of encounters with cultural objects as “non-clinical case studies” in the training and further professional development of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Through its engagement with psychosocial studies, this text, furthermore, interrogates, challenges and offers a way through a hierarchical split that has become established in psychoanalysis between “clinical psychoanalysis” and “applied psychoanalysis”. Combining approaches used in clinical, academic and arts settings, The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis is an essential resource for clinical practitioners of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling, psychology and psychiatry. It will also be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of psychosocial studies, sociology, social work, cultural studies and the creative and performing arts.

Play Therapy in Action
Play Therapy in Action

Author: Terry Kottman

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated

Published: 1994-02-01

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 1461629985

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This book brings together in a single volume concrete applications of play therapy by seasoned clinicians from various theoretical perspectives. The goal is to reflect the broad spectrum of approaches that now exist in the field. The major psychopathologies in children present the therapist with different problems and therefore require different approaches. Another guiding belief underlying this volume is that descriptive studies that carefully detail psychotherapy process are among the most useful and practical resources for both students and practicing therapists. This casebook offers step-by-step treatment guidelines for a number of childhood difficulties, including internalizing, externalizing, and post-traumatic disorders. It should be of interest to both students and more advanced practitioners in a variety of mental health disciplines, including social work; psychiatry; clinical, counseling, and school psychology; expressive arts therapy; child-life therapy; and psychiatric nursing. A Jason Aronson Book

A Casebook of Ethical Challenges in Neuropsychology
A Casebook of Ethical Challenges in Neuropsychology

Author: Shane S. Bush

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004-11-23

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1135330565

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The American Psychological Association published a revision of the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct in 2002.This text, a companion to the 2002 text Ethical Issues in Clinical Neuropsychology by Bush and Drexler, presents the reader with common ethical challenges in neuropsychology. This text examines the differences between the 1992 and 2002 APA Ethics Codes as they relate to neuropsychological activities. The authors present cases and discuss ethical issues related to neuropsychological practice with a variety of patient populations and in a variety of clinical settings. In addition, ethical issues in neuropsychological research and test development are examined. The text also includes chapters on emerging and particularly challenging aspects of neuropsychological practice, such as the assessment of response validity, and the use of information technology and telecommunications. Through the use of case illustrations, the authors examine ethical issues in neuropsychology and the new Ethics Code, offering a practical approach for understanding and promoting ethical neuropsychological practice.

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 7 Number 1
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Volume 7 Number 1

Author: Molly Ludlam

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2017-03-31

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13:

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Couple and Family Psychoanalysis is an international journal sponsored by Tavistock Relationships, which aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and family relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective. It seeks to provide a forum for disseminating current ideas and research and for developing clinical practice. The annual subscription provides two issues a year. Articles - “How to Cure Family Disturbance”: Enid Balint and the Creation of Couple Psychoanalysis Twenty-first Enid Balint Memorial Lecture 2016 by Brett Kahr - Response to “How to Cure Family Disturbance”: Lily Pincus, Martin Buber, and Projective Identification by Viveka Nyberg - The Confinement of Compromise Formations: a Formable Aspect of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy by Robert Waska - When the Couple is not Enough, or When the Couple is Too Much: Exploring the Meaning and Management of Open Relationships by Damian McCann - Echoes of the Serial Murder of the Psyche: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Serial Marriage by Hejan Epözdemir Clinical Narrative and Discussion

Pharmacotherapy Casebook
Pharmacotherapy Casebook

Author: Terry L. Schwinghammer

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13:

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This casebook is designed to help students develop the skills required to identify and resolve drug therapy problems through the use of patient case studies.

Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy
Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy

Author: Alan S. Gurman

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-11-26

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1462509681

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An ideal supplemental text, this instructive casebook presents in-depth illustrations of treatment based on the most important couple therapy models. An array of leading clinicians offer a window onto how they work with clients grappling with mild and more serious clinical concerns, including conflicts surrounding intimacy, sex, power, and communication; parenting issues; and mental illness. Featuring couples of varying ages, cultural backgrounds, and sexual orientations, the cases shed light on both what works and what doesn't work when treating intimate partners. Each candid case presentation includes engaging comments and discussion questions from the editor. See also Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Fourth Edition, also edited by Alan S. Gurman, which provides an authoritative overview of theory and practice.

Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents, Second Edition
Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents, Second Edition

Author: Mark A. Reinecke

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2006-07-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781593853785

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This clinically oriented casebook and text presents empirically supported interventions for a wide range of child and adolescent problems. Leading cognitive-behavioral therapists demonstrate assessment and treatment approaches that have been carefully adapted--or specially designed--to meet the needs of young patients. Following a consistent format, each chapter reviews the relevant literature and presents an extended case example bringing to life what an experienced therapist might do, why, and how to do it.