1st Edition

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy A Handbook

Edited By Matthias Elzer, Alf Gerlach Copyright 2014
    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book provides a complete and fundamental overview, from a psychoanalytical point of view, on theoretical and clinical aspects of psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It includes the theory of the human mind, psychic development, psychic conflicts, trauma, and dreams.

    Series Editor’s Preface -- Preface -- Psychoanalytic Theory of the Human Mind -- Psychoanalytic Theory of Psychic Development through the Life Span -- Conflict, Trauma, Defence Mechanisms, and Symptom Formation -- Dreams -- The Therapeutic Relationship -- The Setting in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy -- Diagnosis and Treatment in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy -- Psychopathology and Psychodynamics of Neurosis -- Psychopathology and Psychodynamics of Psychosomatic Disorders -- Psychotic Disorders, Addiction, and Suicide

    Biography

    Elzer, Matthias