Psychodynamic Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series) - Softcover

Jacobs, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803980469 ISBN 13: 9780803980464

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

A valuable addition to the series, this volume provides practitioners and students with a practical guide to the major aspects of psychodynamic counseling techniques. Using actual case studies, this engaging volume takes you step-by-step through the counseling process--from the first meeting to the last. In clear and accessible fashion, the book discusses such essential features of the psychodynamic method as: the development of the first session; recording and understanding session material; the limitations and boundaries in the counseling setting; and defenses, resistance, transference, and the psychodynamic understanding of personality development. "Jacobs offers a firm theoretical framework, showing how the psychodynamic approach is based on a knowledge of developmental psychodynamic approach is based on a knowledge of developmental psychology and on Object Relations theory. Normal everyday language is used to illustrate this, so the theory is accessible and self-evidently useful. . . . Jacobs′s book encouraged me to ponder cases of my own, just as supervision does." --The Journal of the British Association for Counselling "A well-written book, clearly organised, and has the facility of making very understandable and workable what are difficult and profound concepts. . . . This is one of the best books I have read in explaining what psychodynamic counselling is all about. . . . For students at all stages of learning about counselling." --British Journal of Guidance and Counselling "Well written in a clear and sensitive way. . . . I recommend the book to both students of the psychodynamic approach and students of counselling; it covers both fields in a practical sense but retains the ability to stimulate deeper thought for the practitioner and workers in associated fields." --Counselling Psychology Review

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About the Author

Michael Jacobs was for many years director of the counselling and psychotherapy programme at the University of Leicester. He is one of the pioneers of psychodynamic counselling and therapy in Britain. He has written and edited over sixty books including Sigmund Freud (SAGE, 2^nd edition, 2003) and D.W. Winnicott (SAGE, 1995). He has been a visiting professor at Leeds and Bournemouth Universities and has a Ph.D, his thesis being on psychoanalytic criticism of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has retired from practice as a therapist and supervisor, and as a teacher and trainer, but maintains a keen interest in the development of psychodynamic thinking and practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803980469
• ISBN 13: 9780803980464
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144