Features & Benefits
- Essential principles of clinical practice are distilled in a personal, nontechnical language.
- The book discusses effective listening, talking, transference, countertransference, and emotional safety.
- It integrates elements of other theoretical perspectives and covers neglected topics like educating the client and self-care.
- The text is enriched by in-depth clinical vignettes, making it an essential work for therapists.
- It describes the values, assumptions, and clinical and research findings guiding the psychoanalytic enterprise.
- The phases of treatment and complex challenges to boundaries are also addressed.