Part I: Theoretical and Research Foundations
Psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy in context
The efficacy and effectiveness of psychodynamic-interpersonal
therapy: A 30-year overview
Client change in psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy
Part II: Practitioner Manual
Section A: Learning the Skills
Core model and introductory psychodynamic-interpersonal skills
Intermediate psychodynamic-interpersonal skills
Advanced psychodynamic-interpersonal skills
Section B: Applying the Skills
The initial sessions
The intermediate sessions
The final sessions
Part III: Learning and Developing the Model
Being an effective practitioner of psychodynamic-interpersonal
therapy: Developing competence
Epilogue
Appendix: The Psychodynamic-Interpersonal Therapy Rating Scale
(PITRS)
‘Long-awaited’ does not do justice to the celebrations which this
comprehensive account of Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT,
aka ‘Conversational model’) compiled by its master-practitioners
will evoke. PIT is a miraculous blend of art (metaphor and
the Romantic poets), science (robust outcome-process studies
of depression, Medically Unexplained Symptoms, and Borderline
Personality Disorder) and existential-Self psychology (from
passivity to activity; more secure and reflexive sense of
Self). Like PIT itself, the book is highly practical,
experience-near, transparent, and well-structured. Concise
and indispensable, it will help psychotherapists of all stages and
stripes to become better therapists -- perhaps even better people!
*Prof Jeremy Holmes MD FRCPsych*
At a time when many clinicians feel that research is irrelevant,
alien and yet imposed onto their work, this book offers a
much-needed pathway of rapprochement between practice and
science. Expanding upon a treatment manual that has been
vetted in several studies for many clinical problems, and resting
on rich conceptual foundations, it describes therapeutic skills
that are essential to clinicians of all levels of experience.
It also provides insightful treatment guidelines, helpful tools,
and extensive clinical examples that could only have emerged from
the expertise and wisdom of accomplished researchers,
practitioners, and trainers. With this book at hand, I cannot
think of a clinician who will not learn how to conduct
psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy, get better at it, master it,
teach it – or simply become a more effective therapist.
*Louis Castonguay, Ph.D.*
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