1st Edition

Consultations in Dynamic Psychotherapy

By Peter Hobson Copyright 2013
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book illustrates clinical, psychoanalytic approaches to understanding people in depth, even when breadth of understanding is severely constricted by the brevity of a consultation. It considers the changing times in which psychoanalytic psychotherapists carry on consulting.

    Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction -- Overview -- Frameworks for Practice -- Assessing for psychoanalytic psychotherapy: a historical perspective -- Why assess? Psychoanalytic assessment in the National Health Service -- The Consultation Process -- How to begin? -- Working over -- The close -- The minute particulars -- Special Domains -- Trauma -- Very troubled patients -- Views from Elsewhere -- Research reflections -- Afterthoughts

    Biography

    Hobson, Peter