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• PrefaceAcknowledgments
• Chapter 1. A Brief History and Evolution of Supportive Psychotherapy
• Chapter 2. Psychodynamics and the Therapeutic Alliance
• Chapter 3. Getting Started and the Behavior of the Therapist
• Chapter 4. Transference and Countertransference
• Chapter 5. Strategies and Techniques
• Chapter 6. Trauma
• Chapter 7. Special Populations: Borderline Personality Disorder, Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders and Schizophrenia
• Chapter 8. TerminationIndex.
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The author of Doing Supportive Psychotherapy set out to address a paradox: although conducting psychotherapy is one of the most intimate and exciting things a mental health professional can do, many textbooks on the subject are dull, with formal, stilted dialogue between patient and therapist which prompts the question, "Does anyone really talk like that?" This text was designed to be different. In a dynamic, informal style, the book draws the reader in, providing the essential building blocks that are both applicable to any mental health discipline and compatible with any type of psychotherapy. The dozens of case examples presented were taken from actual cases and illustrate a full range of interactions from the excellent to the seemingly ineffective: all have instructional value. Likewise, the dialogue between therapist and patient is conversational in a realistic way, sometimes eloquent, sometimes not. This approach gives the reader a true sense of the scope of the therapeutic interaction. In addition, the underlying structure of the book is logical and easy to grasp, beginning with the evolution of supportive psychotherapy and ending with a chapter on termination. The principles of learning to do a psychodynamic formulation are outlined in a step-by-step fashion, making it easy to learn, progress, and practice. The concepts and techniques explored throughout the book are grounded in the psychotherapy literature, and evidence-based research is cited where relevant. The book emphasizes that psychotherapy is an inexact science, therapists are human, and the process of therapy is a journey that is constantly changing rather than static. This approach reassures the reader, who feels supported in a "holding environment" while learning psychotherapy. The text is short and sweet, designed to teach essentials and include "just enough" to get clinicians started in supportive psychotherapy. Although the text is targeted at readers on the path toward becoming psychotherapists (social workers, family counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists), those who don't conduct psychotherapy will find it an essential tool for learning how to understand patients as well as for learning strategies and techniques for keeping a good therapeutic alliance (which inevitably translates into good medication compliance). Doing Supportive Psychotherapy is a brief, spirited book, which functions as both instructional text and paean to psychotherapy. In vigorous, personal prose, the author leaves readers with the message that they are not alone as they venture into the overwhelmingly complex, perplexing, and yet totally wonderful endeavor of the "talking cure".
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• Ch. 1. The fifteen key ingredients of good psychotherapy / Brett Kahr
• Ch. 2. Relational perspectives on the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis / Neil Altman
• Ch. 3. The questions we have to ask (ourselves) before we answer the question : "how does psychotherapy work?" / Joseph Schwartz
• Ch. 4. The psychotherapy relationship / Susie Orbach
• Ch. 5. Rhythm, reorientation, reversal : deep reorganization of the self in psychotherapy / Roz Carroll
• Ch. 6. When thought is not enough / Nicola Diamond
• Ch. 7. Primal psychotherapy / Sue Cowan-Jenssen
• Ch. 8. Containment : the technical and the tacit in successful psychotherapy / Robert M. Young
• Ch. 9. The value of attachment theory in understanding how psychotherapy works / James Pollard
• Ch. 10. The big picture / Carol Holmes
• Ch. 11. Is the psychotherapist's authenticity a crucial key to therapeutic change? / Dianne Campbell LeFevre.

It is said that the question "how does psychotherapy work?" cannot be answered conclusively - that we cannot reach into the depths of a deeply private relationship and pluck out a precise truth about what occurs within it. This book defies that notion. Here, the question is both beautifully explored and answered by leading psychotherapists from different schools to create a fascinating volume of ground-breaking ideas and theory. Each contributor unravels the procedures of the work, discussing the qualities of good psychotherapy from their own personal and theoretical perspectives. They explore the reasons why people seek help, how they can be helped and the goals of the therapeutic journey, each of them writing with precision, clarity and passion for the work they do. Despite the wide range of variations in their theory and technique the eleven contributors to this book are united in finding certain common denominators in successful psychotherapy.
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It is said that the question "how does psychotherapy work?" cannot be answered conclusively - that we cannot reach into the depths of a deeply private relationship and pluck out a precise truth about what occurs within it. This book defies that notion. Here, the question is both beautifully explored and answered by leading psychotherapists from different schools to create a fascinating volume of ground-breaking ideas and theory.Each contributor unravels the procedures of the work, discussing the qualities of good psychotherapy from their own personal and theoretical perspectives. They explore the reasons why people seek help, how they can be helped and the goals of the therapeutic journey, each of them writing with precision, clarity and passion for the work they do. Despite the wide range of variations in their theory and technique the eleven contributors to this book are united in finding certain common denominators in successful psychotherapy.How Does Psychotherapy Work? presents a thought-provoking, cogent and convincing dialogue on the capacity of psychotherapy to help people who are in emotional pain, and the technicalities of that process.Contributors:Neil Altman; Roz Carroll; Sue Cowan-Jenssen; Nicola Diamond; Carol Holmes; Brett Kahr; Dianne Lefevre; Susie Orbach; James Pollard; Jane Ryan; Joseph Schwartz; and Robert Maxwell Young.
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• Medical wisdom in the twenty-first century
• Caring for the patient
• Clinical dialogue and communication
• The art of clinical diagnosis
• Disease management and prevention
• Caring for dying patients and their families
• Masking a living as a clinician
• Staying up to date
• Mentoring tomorrow's physicians
• About your family and community
• Caring for you, the physician
• Ethics, credibility, and trust
• Planning for tomorrow
• Wise physicians, twenty-first century challenges, and doctoring.

• Ethical issues of everyday practice: Interviews of psychotherapists about the ethical dilemnas they encounter-- Ethics and negative effects of psychotherapies-- Ideologies of psychotherapies: Values of psychotherapies-- Ethical challenges of individual psychotherapy-- Ethical issues of group and dyadic therapies: A comparative approach-- The ethical minefield of marital and family therapies-- Ethical issues in therapeutic interventions in organizations-- Legal and ethical issues of the psychotherapies-- Where we are now: Where we go from here-- Index.
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This book describes and analyses the ethical dilemmas faced daily by psychotherapists. Drawing on extensive interviews with practitioners, the author identifies common themes and discusses them in the context of the different modalities - individual, group, marital and family, and organization therapies. Topics include judging one's appropriateness as a care provider for a particular patient, the intrusion of personal interests into therapy, confidentiality, and financial and insurance arrangements. The author also considers common ethical problems arising from the underlying assumptions of the different therapies. This book affords an inside look at how psychotherapists define the basic ethical concerns of their profession and how they meet its ethical challenges. A final chapter contains recommendations for the ethical practice of psychotherapy.
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