The Craft of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

This work is an orientation to a craft of great richness and interest. The authors describe the defining elements of the accumulated working knowledge of psychodynamic psychotherapy. It revisits the raw pointedness of old questions: What is psychotherapy? What makes it meaningful? What do I say when a patient asks me how therapy works? How long will it take? How does change happen?

Ernst Prelinger is clinical professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and a member of the faculty, at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Preface: The Spirit of This Book	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Inner Life and Adaptation
Individual Psychological Work	p. 21
Impediments to Individual Psychological Work	p. 26
Adaptation	p. 28
Psychodynamics	p. 35
Character	p. 52
Creating a Room of One's Own
The Therapist: Her Personal Experiences and Qualities	p. 75
Wobbly and Brittle	p. 79
Early Learning	p. 81
Later Learning	p. 87
The Frame	p. 90
Setting Up a Practice	p. 100
Opening the Door
The Patient	p. 115
First Encounters	p. 120
The Therapeutic Match	p. 123
The Therapeutic Understanding	p. 126
The First Therapy Session: Setting a Tone	p. 132
The First and Only Hour	p. 147
The Initial Version	p. 158
The Therapeutic Formulation and Agenda	p. 161
Widening the Conversation	p. 165
The Dynamic Interplay
Resistance and Anxiety	p. 171
A Frequent Clinical Situation	p. 177
Transference	p. 182
Countertransference	p. 193
Clinical Neutrality	p. 198
The Therapeutic Alliance	p. 205
The Nitty Gritty
What Does a Therapist Actually Do? A Starter Kit	p. 211
Listening	p. 213
Beginning and Ending Sessions	p. 251
Making Comments	p. 255
Being Silent	p. 262
Interpretations	p. 266
Working Through	p. 274
Termination	p. 278
Ingredients of Change
Active Elements in Productive Psychotherapeutic Work	p. 295
Meditation	p. 299
References and Recommended Readings	p. 301
Index	p. 305
About the Authors	p. 313
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