Expanding Your Clinical Repertoire: Psychoanalytic Ideas You Can Use to Help Patients

How do I help particular patients to become more psychologically minded? How do I understand the meanings behind their communications? What can I do to reestablish the therapeutic alliance after a rupture in the relationship? From master clinicians, this uniquely integrative guide presents contemporary psychodynamic ideas and techniques to expand any therapist's clinical repertoire, regardless of orientation. Jeff Fine-Thomas and Nancy McWilliams explain how psychoanalytic principles can aid in making sense of a client's presenting problems, positioning treatment for success, overcoming common roadblocks, and fostering meaningful growth. Brief vignettes and chapter-length case examples illustrate ways to weave carefully selected psychodynamic strategies into the beginning, middle, and end phases of treatment.