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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide

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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide
29.99 €
Nancy McWilliams' book is a systematic work on psychotherapy, understood by the author as a highly individualized art. The book is addressed to people trained in psychology, counseling, psychiatry, general medical practice, social work, etc., and is intended to acquaint its readers with the essential features of this art as applied to various populations and pathologies. It is a textbook on psychodynamic therapy, showing how useful psychoanalytic therapies can be for seriously ill clients and those who cannot be analyzed. Psychoanalytic therapies, according to the author, reduce emotional suffering, prevent destructive acting out, increase resistance to illness, make life more meaningful, and give comfort to those who find it very difficult to find solace. The publication is an attempt to highlight a number of important points of effective clinical practice for the large number of suffering people who need help. McWilliams draws particular attention to aspects of psychotherapy not usually covered in textbooks, in particular common quandaries about boundaries - whether it is okay to accept gifts or hug a patient, examples that touch on the issue of commitment, and the need for therapists to respect their own individuality in terms of the arrangements and ways in which they make interventions with patients. Drawing on her own experience, the author shows how to maintain one's own self-respect, how to behave in ways that are both professional and natural, and how to protect one's own boundaries from the persistent intrusion of the most reckless clients. In her book, Nancy McWilliams seeks to convey something of the oral tradition of psychotherapeutic practice: what therapists typically glean from their supervisors and from their personal experience of psychotherapy and analysis.
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