Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Chapter 1) What Is Object Relations? Chapter 2) The Big Picture Chapter 3) Assessment and Formulation Chapter 4) Patient Selection Chapter 5) The Treatment Contract Chapter 6) The Value of Rules and Boundaries Chapter 7) Beginning the First Session Chapter 8) The Four Levels of Meaning Chapter 9) Tools of the Trade Chapter 10) Projective Identification Chapter 11) Anxiety and the Paranoid-Schizoid Position Chapter 12) Silence and Boredom in Therapy Chapter 13) Neediness in Therapy Chapter 14) Addressing Possible Decompensation Chapter 15) Structure and How to Use It Therapeutically Chapter 16) Verbal Attacks on the Therapist Chapter 17) Sadness in Therapy Chapter 18) Erotic Transference and Countertransference Chapter 19) Advice in Therapy Chapter 20) Self-Disclosure Chapter 21) Gifts in Therapy Chapter 22) Putting It All Together: A Sample Session Chapter 23) What Is Progress in Therapy? Chapter 24) Termination and Other Therapy Endings Chapter 25) Object Relations Concepts and Cognitive Therapies Chapter 26) Object Relations Concepts in General Follow-Up References Glossary Suggested Reading List

About the Author

Allan Frankland is Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, and Staff Psychiatrist, Psychiatry Outpatient Department, Vancouver General Hospital

Reviews

"This is a wonderfully practical and accessible book on conducting psychotherapy from an object relations perspective...The Little Psychotherapy Book is a useful text for all students of psychotherapy who want to learn the basics of object relations theory and how to incorporate this approach into their treatments." --American Journal of Psychiatry "Throughout the text, Dr Frankland successfully demysti-fies technical terms...His use of the same case throughout the book provides simplicity and continuity, and transcripts that illustrate the progression of the case over time are annotated with descriptions of the therapist's use of techniques such as confrontation, clarification, and interpretation...this book is recommended for therapy trainees who are interested in relational psychodynamic approaches and concerned with putting these seemingly abstract concepts into "real world" practice." --Psychiatric Times "I like brief texts that are to the point and this is clearly one of them. This little book will be useful for clinicians trying to learn the tools of the psychotherapy trade (especially object relations) together with some basic understanding of the theoretical underpinnings...Many experienced clinicians not familiar with the practice of object relations will find it quite useful as a guide for dealing with patients having serious interpersonal/ relationship difficulties, such as the proverbial borderline personality disorder patients." --ANNALS OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY "The text explains everything, not leaving anything out and not taking the reader for granted.... I like brief texts that are to the point and this is clearly one of them. This little book will be useful for clinicians trying to learn the tools of the psychotherapy trade (especially object relations) together with some basic understanding of the theoretical underpinnings...Nevertheless, I do not think that only novices will find this book useful. Many experienced clinicians not familiar with the practice of object relations will find it quite useful as a guide for dealing with patients having serious interpersonal/ relationship difficulties, such as the proverbial borderline personality disorder patients." --American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists "Dr Allan Frankland simplifies object-relational theory and offers concrete advice for the beginning clinician. Throughout the text, Dr Frankland successfully demystifies technical terms, such as "projective identification" and "object constancy," in a way that is easily digestible for the new therapist-all without losing their depth and complexity. Particularly impressive are explanations of Klein's paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions and his application of these abstract concepts to a realistic case example. His use of the same case throughout the book provides simplicity and continuity...this book is recommended for therapy trainees who are interested in relational psychodynamic approaches and concerned with putting these seemingly abstract concepts into "real world" practice." --Psychiatric Times