Contemporary psychodynamic theory and practice
Subtitle: toward a critical pluralism
By: William Borden.
Publisher: Lyceum Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780925065513
Subjects: Psychodynamic psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis -- Philosophy; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy
Description: Bordon makes good use of key thinkers within the psychodynamic tradition, explaining concepts and theories and applying them to clinical perspectives, clinical applications and contexts. With a comparative framework for clinical practice firmly in mind, he includes recent developments for psychotherapy and psychosocial intervention as he identifies psychoanalysis as an evolving field, including material on the emergence of the relational paradigm and relational theory and integrative perspectives in clinical practice. The result is a remarkably compact but accessible treatment of the great thinkers, great ideas, and great applications to real life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Orienting perspectives in contemporary psychodynamic thought; title: Sigmund Freud and the classical psychoanalytic tradition; title: Alfred Adler, individual psychology, and the social surround; title: C.G. Jung and the psychology of the self; title: Emergence of relational perspectives: Otto Rank, Sandor Ferenczi, and Ian Suttie; title: Psychoanalysis in Great Britain: Melanie Klein and beyond; title: W.R.D. Fairbairn: inner experience and outer realities; title: D.W. Winnicott and the facilitating environment; title: John Bowlby: self, others, and the relational world; title: Harry Stack Sullivan and the interpersonal tradition; title: Karen Horney and the interpersonal tradition; title: Heinz Kohut and the psychology of the self; title: Emergence of the relational paradigm; title: Comparative approaches and integrative perspectives in psychosocial intervention.