Description
Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic psychotherapies have traditionally considered behavioral change as a secondary outcome, a beneficial byproduct of gaining insight and making the unconscious conscious.
Though clinical evidence suggests that an increasing number of psychoanalysts are targeting behavioral change, strategic frameworks remain scarce. Psychodynamic Approaches to Behavioral Change addresses this deficiency.
This guide demonstrates how, rather than being at odds with psychoanalytic treatments, targeting behavioral change can be part of the development and employment of psychodynamic therapy and can be used to enhance self-understanding. To that end, it offers readers a framework for behavioral change interventions, including:
• Identifying problematic behaviors
• Examining the context, affects, and meanings of problematic behaviors
• Formulating contributing intrapsychic conflicts, defenses, and developmental factors
• Identifying alternative behaviors
• Elaborating feelings and fantasies about performing alternative behaviors
• Addressing factors that interfere with alternative behaviors
• Working with the impact of behavioral change
• The use of homework
Clinicians will also find a frank discussion of potential pitfalls in efforts to change behaviors and a description of interventions for sustaining behavioral change, which will help them avoid some of the complex challenges that targeting behavioral change can present, as well as aid them as they work with their patients to maintain new behavior.
Throughout the book, vignettes illustrate how to apply these psychodynamic techniques in the clinical setting as clinician and patient collaborate to make practical changes in the patient's life. And because of its jargon-free tone, Psychodynamic Approaches to Behavioral Change will enable a broad range of mental health professionals—whether psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, or others—who use a variety of treatments to be more effective in their approach.
Trade ReviewIn short, this is a terrific book, and Busch has done all of us, "experts" and novices alike, a great service. It should be required reading for everyone in the field of mental health.
-- Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, M.D. * Journal of Psychiatric Practice July 2019 *
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1. Understanding Behavioral Change in Psychoanalytic Treatments
Chapter 2. Psychodynamic Understanding of Factors That Impede Behavioral Change
Chapter 3. Identifying and Addressing Risks in Targeting Behavioral Change
Chapter 4. Using Psychodynamic Techniques in Addressing Behavioral Change
Chapter 5. A Framework for Targeting Behavioral Change
Chapter 6. Identifying Dynamic Contributors to Problematic Behaviors
Chapter 7. Identifying Alternative Behaviors
Chapter 8. Identifying Interfering Factors in Performing Alternative Behaviors
Chapter 9. Working With Sustaining Behavioral Change and the Response of Others
Chapter 10. Engaging the Patient in Addressing Specific Behavioral Problems
Chapter 11. Addressing Behavioral Problems Related to Adverse Developmental Experiences and Trauma
Index
