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Book SynopsisStorr's The Art of Psychotherapy first appeared in 1979 and became an instant classic. After Storr's death, a third edition was rewritten and revised by Jeremy Holmes, and this fourth edition is a further up-to-date iteration.
Storr (19202001) and Holmes, both medical psychoanalytic psychotherapists, are elders' in the world of psychotherapy.Their eclectic, experienced and cultured voices offer students and psychotherapy practitioners clinical wisdom hard to find elsewhere. Their book expounds in a very practical way the issues entailed in setting up and maintaining a psychotherapeutic relationship and practice: how to introduce oneself, arrange one's consulting room, establish a contract, when and how to make interpretations''. The second half of the book deals with more general and often problematic issues, including how to align therapy in the light of diagnosis, working with difficult' patients, therapy termination, and the life course of a therapist, ending with a
Trade Review
‘Want to know about contemporary psychotherapy practice – what to do, why to do it, when to do it, and how to do it? This new edition of a seminal text is for you. Originally aimed at those starting out as a psychotherapist, the book remains first choice of primers on psychotherapy practice. If you have read it before, read it again! It is as new and fresh as it ever was. Practical as ever, this new addition skilfully intertwines the wisdom and art of old with the science and research of the new. Clinical examples, many delightfully pithy and humourous, enliven the discussion and brilliantly foreground the humanity of psychotherapy.’
Anthony Bateman, FRCPsych, Consultant to Anna Freud Centre London; Visiting Professor, University College London; Honorary Professor of Psychotherapy, Copenhagen University
‘Holmes is an inspired choice to update this classic work! The Art of Psychotherapy was always a useful book, but it seems that Holmes has made it more valuable by making it more accessible and more rooted in everyday psychiatry. It will obviously be a great book for trainees in psychiatry and psychotherapy, but equally useful for interested lay people who may be thinking about exploring themselves in psychodynamic psychotherapy. It is readable, and refreshing in its honesty and kindliness. Congratulations on a superb updated edition; especially about on-line working, the great debate du jour.’
Gwen Adshead is forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She is qualified as a group analyst and trained in mindfulness based cognitive therapy and mentalisation based therapy. For the least 30 years, she has worked as a therapist with violence perpetrators in secure hospitals and prisons. Gwen has written and co-authored many academic papers and books; chiefly in the field of attachment theory, personality disorder and ethics in mental health. Her most recent work The Devil You Know is co-authored with Eileen Horne
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Setting Chapter 2: The Initial Interview Chapter 3: Getting Going: Overcoming Initial Resistance Chapter 4: Making Progress Chapter 5: Interpretation Chapter 6: Dreams, Daydreams and Creativity Chapter 7: The Therapeutic Relationship Chapter 8: Transference and Counter-transference Chapter 9: Diagnosis and Psychodynamic Formulation Chapter 10: Depression Chapter 11: Anxiety Chapter 12: Patterns of Personality Chapter 13: The Science of Psychotherapy Chapter 14: The End of Therapy Chapter 15: The Life and Work of a Psychotherapist
