Description
Book Synopsis
Hanna Levenson provides an overview of brief dynamic therapy, a time-efficient treatment in which the therapist maintains a focus on specific client goals within a psychodynamic conceptual framework.
Common characteristics of these approaches include time management, defined focus, circumscribed goals, active therapist participation, rapid assessment, prompt intervention, an awareness of unconscious processes, and techniques that quickly foster a strong alliance with the client.
This concise volume focuses largely on one popular model in particular: time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP). TLDP is an integrative approach that uses techniques from attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, affective–experiential learning, and systems orientations to help clients with long-standing, dysfunctional ways of relating to others. The author explores this integrative, culturally-sensitive approach, its theory, history, the therapy process, primary change mechanisms, empirical basis, and future developments.
This revised edition includes updated case examples, as well as a wealth of new research findings — including process-outcome studies — that affirm treatment effectiveness, explain how alliance ruptures are repaired, and new research on the 'reconsolidation process' that demonstrates how sudden, dramatic change happens in brief dynamic therapy.
Trade Review“Recommended as a core addition to professional and academic library Psychology/Psychiatry collections.” —
Midwest Book Review "Listen in on a master clinician at work. Read this book." —Jacqueline B. Persons, PhD, Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Science Center, Oakland, CA; University of California at Berkeley
Recommended as a core addition to professional and academic library Psychology/Psychiatry collections.
* Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsSeries Preface
How to Use This Book With APA Psychotherapy Videos
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: History
Chapter 3: Theory
Chapter 4: The Therapy Process
Chapter 5: Evaluation
Chapter 6: Future Developments Glossary of Key Terms
Suggested Readings
References
Index
About the Author
About the Series Editors
