This practical textbook demystifies the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Alessandra Lemma, an experienced clinician, provides step-by-step guidelines and useful pointers to the various stages of therapy for novices and relative newcomers to the field. Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy shows you:
- how to make a transference interpretation
- how to assess and formulate
- how to work with defences and manage endings
- how to listen to unconscious communication
- extensive case study examples.
This book is invaluable for students of clinical psychology at all levels, as well as psychotherapists, doctors, nurses, social workers and counsellors.
