Listening to the Melody of the Mind

The Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

Rima Brauer, Gerald Faris

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9798216350064
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

Psychotherapy has been described humorously as the art of practicing a science which doesn't exist. Brauer and Faris submit that the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy draws on both art and science and should be conducted only by those who are properly trained with sufficient experience and steeped in the empirical literature based on solid research. Insightful and well-trained therapists should, therefore, draw heavily from the scientific disciplines of child development, medical science, biology, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology. To tap into the great body of research in such areas means the well-read psychotherapist must be able to assimilate contributions from a rather broad array of specialties. This is a daunting task and is not for the intellectually faint of heart. Listening to the Melody of the Mind attempts to provide a comprehensive exploration of the person who is the therapist.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I. INTRODUCTION
• Ch01. Two Minds Establish a Psychotherapy
• Ch02. How the Talking Cure Works
• Ch03. When the Therapist Is Good Enough
• Ch04. When the Therapist Isn’t Good Enough
• Ch05. Authenticity
• Part II. THE NECESSARY CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE
• Ch06. Adequate Theoretical/Conceptual Frameworks
• Ch07. Multiple Points of View
• Ch08. Supervised Experience in Diagnosing and Trea
• Ch09. Spectrum Disorders—Schizophrenia, Mood Disorders
• Ch10. Disorders of the Borderline Syndrome
• Ch11. Coordinated Split Treatment
• Part III. THE NATURE OF THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
• Ch12. Patient–Therapist Motivations for Psychotherapy
• Ch13. Empathy and Therapeutic Tact
• Ch14. How the Therapist’s Mind Works
• Ch15. Cognitive Style and the Therapeutic Alliance
• Ch16. Addressing the Patient’s Need to Fight
• Ch17. The Place of Dreams in the Therapeutic Process
• Ch18. Psychopharmacology and the Complexity of Psychodynamics
• Part IV. THE CHALLENGES OF THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
• Ch19. Countertransference and Rescue Fantasies
• Ch20. Feelings
• Ch21. Negative Therapeutic Reactions
• Ch22. People Psychotherapy Probably Can’t Help
• Ch23. Rarely Encountered Disorders
• Ch24. Non-Empirical Psychothe
• Closing Comments
• Suggested Reading
• Index
• About the Authors