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Skills in Psychodynamic Counselling & Psychotherapy

Third Edition (Updated Edition)
June 2025 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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This is a step-by-step guide to the key skills and techniques of the psychodynamic approach used at each stage of the therapeutic process.

Updated in a third edition, the book includes the latest thinking on countertransference and transference; new content on issues of difference and diversity in the therapeutic relationship; online therapy; new case studies; and updates on the evidence base for psychodynamic therapy.

 
1. THE PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH
 
2. THE PERSONAL JOURNEY TOWARDS SKILLED PRACTICE
 
3. OTHER WAYS TO ENHANCE PERSONAL GROWTH
 
4. WORKING WITHIN DIFFERENCE AND DIVERSITY
 
5. THERAPIST AS NEUROSURGEON: UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY
 
6. SETTING THE SCENE FOR THERAPY: THE THERAPEUTIC FRAME
 
7. THE FIRST SESSIONS: THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE
 
8. WORKING WITH UNCONSCIOUS COMMUNICATION
 
9. THE THEORY UNDERLYING TECHNIQUE: TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
 
10. TYPES OF INTERPRETATION
 
11. INTERPRETING THE TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
 
12. UNDERSTANDING AND WORKING WITH DEFENCES
 
13. MANAGING THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS
 
14. ASSESSMENT AND FORMULATION
 
15. WORKING ONLINE
 
16. HOW DO WE KNOW IT WORKS?

Susan Howard

During her forty year career Susan Howard has worked as both a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical psychologist. Sharing knowledge about the psychodynamic approach with lay people and other professionals has been both a cornerstone and a highlight of her professional career. This included teaching psychotherapy to clinical psychologists at the University of Surrey for over two decades. Now semi-retired, she still has a small private practice focussing on supervision and training. Towards the end of her career she undertook an additional training in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) which has its roots in the psychodynamic approach.... More About Author

Katrina Wynne

Katrina Wynne is a psychoanalyst and consultant clinical psychologist. She works at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and in private practice. More About Author