Title: Useful servants
Subtitle: psychodynamic approaches to clinical practice
First published: 1996
Description: Useful Servants: Psychodynamic Approaches to Clinical Practice provides a simple but not simplistic overview of nine major approaches to psychodynamic theory and psychotherapeutic practice. Each chapter includes clinical vignettes as well as an extensive case illustration of how theories may be used in the consulting room. For beginners in the field, Useful Servants makes accessible the central ideas that have shaped the discourse of psychotherapy.

The advanced clinician will find this book an invaluable review and reference tool; in particular, the chapter on Lacan offers a fresh and digestible summary of the clinical application of this immensely complex thinker.
Subjects: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Psychoanalytic Theory, Psychodynamic psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, philosophy
LC classification: RC506 .L485 1996