Overview
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.
Overview of nine approaches to psychotherapeutic practice, incl. Freud, Winnicott, Mahler, Kohut, Stern, Lacan, etc.
Synopsis
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.
Booknews
The author holds the opinion that although no single theoretical perspective is superior to any other, it is crucial for the therapist to possess a unifying perspective. In this light, she presents an overview of those thinkers whose ideas on psychodynamic theory and psychotherapeutic practice she has found most helpful in her own clinical work. Nine chapters outline the contributions of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Hartmann, Klein, Winnicott, Mahler, Kernberg, Kobut, Stern, Stolorow, and Lacan. Clinical vignettes and case studies illustrate how the theories can be used in the consulting room. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.