Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: So What Is Object Relations Anyway?; CHAPTER TWO: The Big Picture; CHAPTER THREE: Assessment and Formulation; CHAPTER FOUR: Patient Selection: Susan's Case; CHAPTER FIVE: The Treatment Contract; CHAPTER SIX: The Value of Rules and Boundaries; CHAPTER SEVEN: Beginning the First Session; CHAPTER EIGHT: The Four Levels of Meaning; CHAPTER NINE: Tools of the Trade; CHAPTER TEN: Projective Identification; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Anxiety and the Paranoid-Schizoid Position; CHAPTER TWELVE: Silence and Boredom in Therapy; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Neediness in Therapy
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Addressing Possible DecompensationCHAPTER FIFTEEN: Structure and How to Use It Therapeutically; CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Verbal Attacks on the Therapist; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Sadness in Therapy; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Erotic Transference and Countertransference; CHAPTER NINETEEN: Advice in Therapy; CHAPTER TWENTY: Self-Disclosure; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Gifts in Therapy; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Putting It All Together: A Sample Ses
Summary
Aimed at beginning therapists and those new to object relations, this concise work introduces the reader to the practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy from an object relations (O-R) perspective in a dynamic and easy-to-follow way. One of the three main schools of psychodynamic psychotherapy, O-R is regarded as particularly challenging, both conceptually and practically. The book presents object relations in a clear and concise manner that makes it especially applicable for regular use in the clinical setting. Moreover, the author writes in a narrative style similar to actual psychotherapy sup
