1st Edition
Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy Selected Works of Howard Bacal
Introduction 1. My Psychoanalytic Advenute- A Quest to Conceptualize Therapeutic Efficacy 2. Notes on Some Therapeutic Challenges in the Analysis of Severely Regressed Patients 3. Optimal Responsiveness and the Therapeutic Process 4. British Object-relations Theorists and Self Psychology: Some Critical Reflections 5. The Selfobject Relationship in Psychoanalytic Treatment 6. The Psychoanalyst's Selfobject Needs and the Effect of Their Frustration on the Treatment: A New View of Countertransference 7. Shame: The Affect of Discrepancy 8. Is Empathic Attunement Always the Optimal Response? 9. The Use of Theory In Psychoanalytic Practice 10. Specificity Theory: The Evolution of a Process Theory of Psychoanalytic Treatment 11. The Budapest School's concept of supervision: Michael Balint's legacy to the development of psychoanalytic specificity theory 12. Discovering Optimal Responsiveness within the Salience of Emergent Process
Biography
Howard Bacal is a psychiatrist based in Los Angeles, USA. He has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and has more than 60 years’ experience in the field.
