Psychodynamic Formulation

by Deborah L. Cabaniss

How do our patients come to be the way they are? What forces shape their conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings? How can we use this information to best help them?    Constructing psychodynamic formulations is one of the best ways for mental health professionals to answer questions like these. It can help clinicians in all mental health setting understand their patients, set treatment goals, choose therapeutic strategies, construct meaningful interventions and conduct treatment. Despite the centrality of psychodynamic formulation to our work with patients,  few students are taught how to construct them in a clear systematic way.  This book offers students and practitioners from all fields of mental health a clear, practical, operationalized method for constructing psychodynamic formulations, with an emphasis on the following    The unique, up-to-date perspective of this book integrates psychodynamic theories with ideas about the role of genetics, trauma, and early cognitive and emotional difficulties on development to help clinicians develop effective formulations. Psychodynamic Formulation is written in the same clear, concise style of Psychodynamic A Clinical Manual  (Wiley 2011). It is reader friendly, full of useful examples, eminently practical, suitable for either classroom or individual use, and applicable for all mental health professionals. It can stand alone or be used as a companion volume to the Clinical Manual.  

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis

280 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2013

Reviews

[Rūta Švėgždaitė]

Easy reading for beginners. Full of examples and ideas. Helps to understand why we need to ask certain questions while collecting patient history.

[Charles]

Love it, lots of examples and just dense enough to feel like you are making progress without being too difficult to read

[Andrea]

Great introduction into the psychodynamic Formulation process and theory

[Ellen]

Provides a really good foundation for psychodynamic formulation and I think I'll refer this book a lot whenever I need it. It talks about a general strategy to formulate a case psychodynamically and also points out an importance of sharing a formulation with a patient and different formulation strategies in different clinical settings. There were also a lot of case examples, which I skimmed through. Overall it was a very helpful book for a beginning therapist.

[Tuomas Mansikka]

Luen tätä ajankohtaisesti kolmatta kertaa. Erinomaisesti jäsennelty, selkeästi aihe aiheelta etenevä psykodynaamisen tapausjäsennyksen käsikirja. Peruskäsitteistön ja teorioiden hallinta on eduksi; kirjassa opetetaan soveltamaan käsitteitä kliiniseen työhön ja lähdeluettelosta löytyy kattava lista suositeltavia teoksia, mikäli haluaa tutustua tarkemmin esimerkiksi kiintymyssuhdeteoriaan, minuuden rakentumiseen tms.