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Presence and the Present: Relationship and Time in Contemporary
Psychodynamic Therapy offers salient points learned from the
author's forty years of practice and teaching, and applies
psychodynamic psychotherapy to the contemporary practice climate.
Emphasizing the therapeutic relationship and the dimension of time,
it grounds the discussion in clinical application. Including more
than fifty vignettes and four extended case presentations, the
author deconstructs successful interchanges as well as errors. Part
I sets out central themes and components of this contemporary view
of dynamic therapy while part II examines present-day applications.
Part I begins with an overview of the core (the relationship) and
the contours (characteristics) of therapy and some of the
challenges therapists face today. The ten contours discussed are
the frame, uniqueness, not knowing, different types of knowledge,
mentalization, the therapist's use of self, goals beyond symptom
relief, integration with nondynamic approaches, integration with
neuroscience and therapy outcome research, and, finally, the use of
time and space. Following a discussion of these ten contours, the
book summarizes evidence-based relationship elements in therapy and
the robust empirical research demonstrating dynamic therapy's
effectiveness, while providing a theoretical overview for
therapists not familiar with psychodynamic theory. The last two
chapters of part I examine the complex relationships among time,
life, and psychotherapy and continue the exploration of therapy
duration, the present moment, transience, unending therapy, and
termination. Part II of Presence and the Present begins with two
chapters on the therapy of trauma. Chapters 8 and 9 discuss the
phenomena of trauma and include practical recommendations and
frequent therapist countertransferences. Chapter 10 focuses on the
organization of self experience through bodily sensations and
offers a nuanced model to understand physical elements of
transferences and countertransferences. The final three chapters
explore therapy with couples who are struggling with disturbed
adult or adolescent children, integrate cognitive-behavioral
interventions with the dynamic approach, and examine the frequent
and key affect of shame in psychotherapy.
How do the fundamental elements of experience impact on the
practice of psychotherapy? Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions
of Experience explores the three basic elements of psychotherapy -
time, space and number - summarising theory, setting it in context
and bringing concepts to life with clinical illustrations. Michael
Stadter and David Scharff bring together contributions describing
how each of these elements, as well as their simple and direct
manifestations in the physical world, also combine to form the
psychological dimensions of symbolic reality both in the inner
world and in the transactional world. They also reveal how, in
encounters between patient and therapist, the combination of inner
worlds form a new, uniquely psychological, fourth dimension that
saturates the activity and experience of the other three elements.
This book aims to increase our understanding of the action of the
three dimensions of psychotherapy by looking at the elements that
constitute the setting and process in which clinicians engage every
day. The contributors, all of whom are experienced psychotherapists
and psychoanalysts, connect their thinking on the dimensions to
clinical practice by illustrating their ideas with case material
and examining their impact on general treatment issues. This book
will be useful to practicing psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
and students of psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Object Relations Brief Therapy combines practical techniques with
the depth of object relations theory, the wisdom of previous brief
therapy writers, and, most notably, an emphasis on the unique
therapeutic relationship. Often, therapists despair of doing any
meaningful work in brief therapy. To this, Michael Stadter suggests
the following pragmatic approach, "think dynamically, address some
underlying issue(s) and do what you can." Specifically, the book
emphasizes the depth of understanding of human experience that
comes from an object relations perspective; the insight and
experiential vitality of attention to the therapeutic relationship
including its real, transferential, and countertransferential
elements; the impact of the psychodynamic techniques that have been
carefully studied and delineated by brief therapy writers such as
Davanloo, Horowitz, Malan, Strupp, and Binder; and the flexibility
of an eclectic approach that thoughtfully and selectively
incorporates non-psychodynamic interventions. Therapists do not
have to "escape" managed care, according to Stadter. Rather, they
need to learn how to deal with it in a way that preserves their
integrity and enables them to practice the kind of healing
psychotherapy they know how to do. In today's health care climate,
Object Relations Brief Therapy is a much-needed guide for committed
therapists. This new paperback edition includes a preface reviewing
more recent developments in the area of brief therapy.
How do the fundamental elements of experience impact on the
practice of psychotherapy? Dimensions of Psychotherapy, Dimensions
of Experience explores the three basic elements of psychotherapy -
time, space and number - summarising theory, setting it in context
and bringing concepts to life with clinical illustrations. Michael
Stadter and David Scharff bring together contributions describing
how each of these elements, as well as their simple and direct
manifestations in the physical world, also combine to form the
psychological dimensions of symbolic reality both in the inner
world and in the transactional world. They also reveal how, in
encounters between patient and therapist, the combination of inner
worlds form a new, uniquely psychological, fourth dimension that
saturates the activity and experience of the other three elements.
This book aims to increase our understanding of the action of the
three dimensions of psychotherapy by looking at the elements that
constitute the setting and process in which clinicians engage every
day. The contributors, all of whom are experienced psychotherapists
and psychoanalysts, connect their thinking on the dimensions to
clinical practice by illustrating their ideas with case material
and examining their impact on general treatment issues. This book
will be useful to practicing psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
and students of psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Object Relations Brief Therapy combines practical techniques with
the depth of object relations theory, the wisdom of previous brief
therapy writers, and, most notably, an emphasis on the unique
therapeutic relationship. Often, therapists despair of doing any
meaningful work in brief therapy. To this, Michael Stadter suggests
the following pragmatic approach, "think dynamically, address some
underlying issue(s) and do what you can." Specifically, the book
emphasizes the depth of understanding of human experience that
comes from an object relations perspective; the insight and
experiential vitality of attention to the therapeutic relationship
including its real, transferential, and countertransferential
elements; the impact of the psychodynamic techniques that have been
carefully studied and delineated by brief therapy writers such as
Davanloo, Horowitz, Malan, Strupp, and Binder; and the flexibility
of an eclectic approach that thoughtfully and selectively
incorporates non-psychodynamic interventions. Therapists do not
have to "escape" managed care, according to Stadter. Rather, they
need to learn how to deal with it in a way that preserves their
integrity and enables them to practice the kind of healing
psychotherapy they know how to do. In today's health care climate,
Object Relations Brief Therapy is a much-needed guide for committed
therapists.
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