The Craft of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Chapter 1 Individual Psychological Work
Chapter 2 Impediments to Individual Psychological Work
Chapter 3 Adaptation
Chapter 4 Psychodynamics
Chapter 5 Character
Chapter 6 The Therapist: Her Personal Experiences and Qualities
Chapter 7 Wobbly and Brittle
Chapter 8 Early Learning
Chapter 9 Later Learrning
Chapter 10 The Frame
Chapter 11 Setting up a Practice
Chapter 12 The Patient
Chapter 13 First Encounters
Chapter 14 The Therapeutic Match
Chapter 15 The Therapeutic Understanding
Chapter 16 The First Therapy Session: Setting a Tone
Chapter 17 The First and Only Hour
Chapter 18 The Initial Version
Chapter 19 The Therapeutic Formulation and Agenda
Chapter 20 Widening the Conversation
Chapter 21 Resistance and Anxiety
Chapter 22 A Frequent Clinical Situation
Chapter 23 Transference
Chapter 24 Countertransference
Chapter 25 Clinical Neutrality
Chapter 26 The Therapeutic Alliance
Chapter 27 What Does the Therapist Actually Do?
Chapter 28 Listening
Chapter 29 Beginning and Ending Sessions
Chapter 30 Making Comments
Chapter 31 Being Silent
Chapter 32 Interpretations
Chapter 33 Working Through
Chapter 34 Termination
Chapter 35 Active Elements in Productive Psychotherapeutic Work

Roy Schafer proclaims on the dust jacket, This book is just what is needed at a time when we are assailed by unwarranted doubts about the uses of therapy. Even though the book deserves a subtitle of mentoring new clinicians, I wish that the Divisionwould send copies of it to all plausibly open-minded directors of graduate programs in clinical psychology. In the earlier part of the book, the language is in the third person. By the last third of the book, the authors' remarks are to you, the new therapist. This is the product of not only much clinical experience and theoretical knowledge, but also the result of much teaching experience. Their teaching covers every subject that a budding therapist might need. It deals with the most practical concernsof setting up a practice and takes the reader into the therapy room for learning what it is that a therapist actually does. The whole book models empathy. The latter attributes, however, enhance the selection of this book for an ideal syllabus for graduate students. It should hold a prime place for the first year people. It is the sort of volume to which one returns with greater and greater appreciation as one gains experience.