Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: a Clinical Manual

摘要

When talking about psychodynamic psychotherapy, one could easily associate it with Freud and his theories on unconsciousness and ego. Yet to most young trainees in psychiatry, little is known about how this form of psychotherapy is conducted after decades of development. Do we still need a couch that the patient will be lying on, and to talk about whatever comes into his or her mind? Do we still attempt to interpret how one’s Oedipal complex is unresolved? This clinical manual is a useful guide for psychotherapists or trainees in psychiatry who are interested in knowing how psychodynamic psychotherapy is conducted. Born as a syllabus for psychiatry residents in the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the primary aim of this book is not to delve deeply into the theoretical issues, which might be too complex to comprehend for beginners. Rather, it is set out as a blueprint for clinicians to use as a reference when they are beginning to practise this form of psychotherapy.