1st Edition

Understanding Therapeutic Action Psychodynamic Concepts of Cure

Edited By Lawrence Lifson Copyright 1996
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

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 conflict, structural deficit, and relational conflict, and they must be... Read more

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

Biography

Lawrence Lifson