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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA well-organized, comprehensive and practical guide to psychoanalysis. The book is exceedingly well written and enjoyable to read. * Psychoanalytic Social Work *
Deepening the Treatment offers an essential guide to those in training, to the less experienced and to all those of us who from time to time need help in thinking through how to deepen our work. Each chapter offers clear useful insights illustrated by clinical examples that demonstrate the range of Hall's experience as clinician, teacher and supervisor. All in all this is a highly accessible and warmly written book that would be a useful addition to any training reading list.... * British Journal of Psychotherapy *
Drawing on her long and thoughtful experience as a clinician supervisor, and teacher of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Jane Hall has produced a helpful, down-to-earth, and easily readable book of guidance for those practitioners who are less experienced and less secure. Her attitude is a model of respectfulness, empathy, patience, and benign curiosity, and she uses clinical examples to demonstrate how, from the first contact with the patient, one may continuously deepen the treatment on the way to reaching significant insights. Psychoanalytic work emerges in its true light as an individualized and collaborative search for routes toward a self-fulfilling life. -- Roy Schafer, Ph.D.
Jane Hall's emphasis is on preventing treatment from remaining superficial. Her book adds an important dimenson to the literature. It describes a special kind of respect for the patient and the latent meanings of the patient's manifest utterances, and it stresses the use of the transference as a prime took in deepening the treatment. The book is especially welcome as a balance to the proliferation of therapies that overlook the unconscious. -- Gertrude Blanck, Ph.D.
Deepening the Treatment offers an essential guide to those in training, to the less experienced and to all those of us who from time to time need help in thinking through how to deepen our work. Each chapter offers clear useful insights illustrated by clinical examples that demonstrate the range of Hall's experience as clinician, teacher and supervisor. All in all this is a highly accessible and warmly written book that would be a useful addition to any training reading list. * British Journal of Psychotherapy *
