This book clearly and accessibly explicates the major clinically important character types and suggests how an appreciation of the patient's individual personality structure should influence the therapist's focus and style of intervention.
This volume takes clinicians step-be-step through developing a dynamic case formulation and using this information to guide and inform treatment decisions.
Building on the enormous popularity of her two previous texts on diagnosis and case formulation, this important work from Nancy McWilliams completes the trilogy by addressing in detail the art of psychodynamic treatment. McWilliams distills the essential themes of effective clinical practice across the vast range of suffering people who need help. ...
This book focuses on the issue of mistakes in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy--the inevitability of making them, as far as possible how to avoid them, and what therapists can do to transform potential disasters into a means for growth in themselves as well as the patient. Further developing the creative therapeutic approach first ...
An important task facing all clinicians, and especially challenging for younger, less experienced clinicians, is to come to know oneself sufficiently to be able to register the patient's experience in useful and progressively deeper ways. In an effort to aid younger clinicians in the daily struggle to know thyself, Marilyn Charles turns to key ...
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