Clinical Psychology

release patients from the tyranny of their uncon- scious and thereby free them from their symptoms and other undesirable behavio ...

determined; there are no accidents. The slip of the tongue and the forgotten appointment are not sim- ple mistakes. Rather, they ...

the therapist has a penchant for dreams, then the therapist may be deluged with dream material. In some instances, the patient’s ...

Transference A key phenomenon in psychoanalytic therapy, as we have seen, is transference. To some degree, transference is opera ...

arouse enough anxiety to engage the patient’s seri- ous contemplation but not so much anxiety that the patient will reject it. A ...

great deal in terms of their complexity and incisive- ness. Sometimes they are designed to cut right to the heart of a patient’s ...

The ego-analytic approach has also tended to emphasize the importance of building the patient’s trust through“reparenting”in the ...

shall see, IPT is the most empirically supported of all psychodynamic therapies and appears to be a worthy alternative form of p ...

More substantial research has been conducted for the study of therapy with adults, however. In the pre- vious chapter, we mentio ...

BOX12-4 Clinical Psychologist Perspective: Kenneth N. Levy, Ph.D(Continued) What originally got you interested in the field of c ...

professional societies by being on committees and recently as a conference program chair. What are your particular areas of expe ...

Of all the specific forms of psychodynamic therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) has received the most research attention. ...

Transference interpretations do not result in a greater degree of affective experience in the patient as compared with other ty ...

BOX12-5 Clinical Psychologist Perspective: Ali Khadivi, Ph.D. Dr. Khadivi is a full-time, practicing clinical psychologist with ...

who not only provides interpretations that will lead to insight but also guides the patient into new learning situations seems m ...

CHAPTER SUMMARY The psychodynamic approach to therapy evolved from the work of Sigmund Freud. It focuses on the analysis of past ...

therapeutic alliance. Research evidence and the man- aged care environment should lead more and more psychodynamic clinicians to ...

defense mechanismsStrategies used by the ego to stave off threats originating internally, from one’sid or superego. (Also referr ...

psychosexual stagesA series of developmental stages posited by Freud, each of which is marked by the involvement of a particular ...

13 Psychotherapy: Phenomenological and Humanistic-Existential Perspectives FOCUS QUESTIONS What are the major features that cha ...