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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is the first book designed to teach therapists how to listen and intervene from multiple perspectives. Through study and analysis of session transcripts, the reader learns how to listen and formulate interpretations from four different reflection, analysis of conflict, analysis of transference, and analysis of defense. Each listening approach is introduced with a brief chapter illustrating the rules of intervention followed by therapy transcripts, which the reader studies and analyzes. By studying the transcripts, answering the questions in the material, and comparing his answers with those provided by the author, the reader will learn how to reflect, analyze conflict, interpret the transference, and analyze the defenses.
Beginning therapists can use this book to acquire listening and intervention skills. Advanced therapists will enjoy studying and comparing listening approaches from a meta-theoretical perspective. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy provides a framework for studying how each approach focuses on a different analytic surface, and uses different rules for timing and content of interpretation.
Beginning therapists can use this book to acquire listening and intervention skills. Advanced therapists will enjoy studying and comparing listening approaches from a meta-theoretical perspective. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy provides a framework for studying how each approach focuses on a different analytic surface, and uses different rules for timing and content of interpretation.
- GenresPsychology
274 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1998
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September 30, 2026
This was one of the harder books I have read from Jon Frederickson. It is short but very dense and it took me a while to get through it. A lot of things repeated themselves throughout which at times felt overwhelming even though I understand it was meant to reinforce the teaching.
That said the content itself is really important. What I loved most was his metaphor of going to a concert where each person focuses on a different aspect of the music and how that is exactly like therapy where one therapist might focus on the conflict another on the defense and another on the transference. That metaphor alone made the whole book worth it.
I think this is a book I need to sit down and digest with someone else because reading it alone was a lot. I would recommend it to any therapist but maybe read it with a peer group or supervisor so you can really unpack it together.
That said the content itself is really important. What I loved most was his metaphor of going to a concert where each person focuses on a different aspect of the music and how that is exactly like therapy where one therapist might focus on the conflict another on the defense and another on the transference. That metaphor alone made the whole book worth it.
I think this is a book I need to sit down and digest with someone else because reading it alone was a lot. I would recommend it to any therapist but maybe read it with a peer group or supervisor so you can really unpack it together.
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