Busch, Fredric N.
Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- ISBN 13:
- 9781615373246
- author:
- Busch, Fredric N.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- American Psychiatric Association Publishing
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 176
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15 x 0.8 centimetres (0.2
- Genre:
- Science, Medical, Psychiatry,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy offers a new approach to psychotherapeutic practice. This guide articulates how clinicians can adapt their work to focus on the set of problems patients bring into the consulting room, rather than individual symptoms or issues.
Through case vignettes and practical tools, this book provides a general template for working with patients to identify and address the overlapping dynamics of various problems. It describes how to use psychodynamic exploratory techniques to make problem lists and examine the context and emotions surrounding each issue.
The approach enables therapists and patients to undertake the "working through" process, identifying how specific dynamics emerge in different contexts and overlap in contributing to problems. This helps spur patients' self-reflective capacities and facilitates more rapid addressing of core difficulties.