Jeffrey Seinfeld, Ph.D. is a full-time professor at New York University School of Social Work and a private consultant of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Service. Dr. Seinfeld is a Scientific Member of the Object Relations Institute. He received his Ph.D. from New York University of Social Work and his M.S.W. from Hunter College of Social Work. He has authored and co-edited works in the fields of psychotherapy and clinical social work, including Interpreting and Holding: The Paternal and Maternal Functions of the Psychotherapist, The Bad Object: Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction in Psychotherapy, and The Empty Core: An Object Relations Approach to Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Personality. Dr. Seinfeld is in the private practice of psychotherapy in New York City.
Jeffrey Seinfeld offers a clearly written, engaging, and much
needed exploration of the work we all encounter in the clinical
setting—that of the negative therapeutic reaction. Ongoing work
with 'difficult' patients is rarely explored in such a thorough,
readable, and theoretically grounded way. Seinfeld provides a
careful deconstruction of cases many would consider to be beyond
the scope of our psychotherapeutic paradigm: patients for whom
action is more accessible than verbalization. In this way he
encourages a great optimism about who is actually amenable to
treatment. Through clinical vignettes he brings to life the sense
of futility these cases can evoke, a feeling familiar to the
beginning therapist as well as to the senior clinician. Seinfeld
provides an array of paths to achieving the holding function he
believes is necessary to traverse these prolonged therapeutic
impasses.
*Carol Wachs, Psy.D., co author of Parent Therapy, A Relational
Alternative to Working with Children*
Reading A Primer of Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction is
like having a private supervisory consultation with the leading
authority on the topic, Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld. Using a question and
answer format, this clinical social work scholar and charismatic
proponent of the British School of Object Relations elucidates the
negative therapeutic reaction by providing a rich clinical
dialogue, complete with practical suggestions for intervention and
management of untenable countertransference reactions. An
outstanding introduction to object relations, this book explicates
the essential clinical concepts and their treatment
application.
*Carol Tosone, Ehrenkranz School of Social Work, New York
University*
In A Primer of Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction, Seinfeld
does more than discuss working with resistance in difficult
patients. He weaves in essential pearls from old masters of the
therapeutic art such as Klein, Anna Freud, Fairbairn, Jacobson and
Searles, and presents an overall model for working with character
defenses. He addresses in a very practical way the process of
change in therapy. Patients and clinicians alike often revert to
the fundamental question: Understanding is fine, but how can
therapy lead to change? Seinfeld provides a series of rich clinical
examples, including some with children, of working toward the kind
of character change that can turn a patient's life around. These
case histories illustrate his style of entering into the patient's
internal world from the vantage point of focusing on the
transference. Then, and only then, can the understanding of the
patient's internal objects and how they determine the patient's
current experience of self and others lead to character change.
*Frank Yeomans, Ph.D., Weill Medical College of Cornell University*
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