Books for Therapists on Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapies have been around for a long time, and have helped countless people to understand themselves better and lead a more content life. However, even if a therapy approach fits in the psychodanic box, it has its own principles and ideas, which might be hard to delineate at first. The next few books explore the similarities and fifferences between the psychodynamic approaches, and touch on some fundamental aspects and practices of these theories.
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“That was Then, This is Now: An Introduction to Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy” by Shedler
http://www.jonathanshedler.com/PDFs/Shedler (2006) That was then, this is now R9.pdf
This book, which unfortunately isn’t completed yet, is a creation of professor Jonathan Shedler as he sets the goal of teaching readers essential concepts and ideas to understanding psychodynamic theories. It poses as a modern and accessible look into the extensive universe of psychodynamic thinking, its influence and main schools of thought.
“The Transforming Power of Affect: A model for Accelerated Change” by Fosha
This compelling book by Fosha offers an original path to patient’s healing, drawing from relational and attachment theories and explaining how it all works step-by-step. Readers will learn how to put in practice a beautiful movement in psychodynamic therapy that explores the therapist’s empathy and engagement to estimulate the patient’s healing affects.
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“Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders: A Clinical Handbook” by Clarking and Fonagy
Recommended for seasoned and inexperienced therapists alike, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders focuses on the description, assessment and treatment of personality disorders according to psychodynamic theories, drawing from ample research and clinical cases to achieve the best results from the intervention.
“A Primer of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for the Borderline Patient” by Kernberg, Yeomans and Clarkin
This book sheds light on a recent and effective psychodynamic treatment for borderline patients named Transference-Focused Therapy, which aims to help the practitioner in the very hard task of treating borderline disorder. This new treatment is based on the object relations theory, and its main focus is the transference and countertransference present in the psychotherapy process.
“Psychodynamisch denken – tiefenpsychologisch handeln: Praxis der tiefenpsychologisch fundierten Psychotherapie” von Rudolf
A concise, easy-to-understand psychotherapy book based on immense therapeutic experience and scientific competence and also relevant to practice. Gerd Rudolf’s “structure-related psychotherapy” is considered a milestone in psychotherapeutic literature. With this book he is aimed at psychodynamically oriented therapists, especially at the often very young colleagues in training, who – against the background of a psychology or medical degree and often with little experience in dealing with patients – are faced with the task of understanding the mental illnesses of the patients assigned to them from a psychodynamic point of view.
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