Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy
Subtitle: theory and technique
By: Patricia Coughlin Della Selva ; foreword by David Malan.
Publisher: Wiley & Sons
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Brief psychotherapy.; Psychodynamic psychotherapy.; Psychotherapy, Brief -- methods.
Description: Patricia Coughlin Della Selva's Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy shows therapists how to achieve even the most ambitious therapeutic goals, including character change, in as few as 40 sessions. Not a cookbook, but a systematic guide to intervention, it outlines proven techniques for accessing a patient's ego-functioning, dismantling defenses, intensifying a patient's affective involvement in the treatment, identifying the transference patterns as they arise, and "unlocking the unconscious" with a speed and degree of accuracy previously considered impossible.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and indexes.