On the Daily Work of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

<p><em>On the Daily Work of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy</em> is an operating manual for the challenging often lonely and confusing work of doing therapy. It locates clinical method in a historical tradition of many contributory workers including Freud Breuer Klein Segal Ferenczi Waelder Katan Tausk Sullivan Lacan Bion and Ogden. In this way the book links clinicians with psychoanalytic thinkers across the foreclosures of scholastic orientation and politics to arrive at a methodology based in interpretive reflection and demonstrably active from the period of psychoanalytic origins as an application of the influence of mind upon mind. </p><p>The authors provide the reader with a methodology of clinical thinking of how clinicians orient themselves in clinical registration moment by moment. It develops a route of fundamental therapeutic action applicable under all clinical situations from the single session consultation to intensive long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy. </p>