Case Formulation in Contemporary Psychotherapy : Decoding the Conscious and Preconscious Transactions between Therapist, Patient and Supervisor

Robert Mendelsohn

ISBN 10: 1032452161 / ISBN 13: 9781032452166

Published by Routledge, 2023

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Case Formulation in Contemporary Psychotherapy presents a new approach to case conceptualization and case formulation, making meaning from each clinical case and using every piece of data available. Robert Mendelsohn explains his core basic principles for case formulation, allowing the clinician to assess a case quickly and accurately. This book includes a discussion of the contributions of transference and countertransference, inducement and enactment, as well as the use of paradigmatic techniques, humor, and language. The processes presented, alongside vignettes illustrating their use, will allow clinicians to decode the meaning of all clinical interaction and to communicate that meaning in a helpful way to students and patients. Providing a new way to access a full range of conscious and preconscious clinical information, Case Formulation in Contemporary Psychotherapy will be essential reading for mental health professionals including psychotherapists and psychodynamic and psychoanalytic clinicians in practice and in training. It will also be of great interest to students of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Case Formulation in Contemporary Psychotherapy : Decoding the Conscious and Preconscious Transactions between Therapist, Patient and Supervisor
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032452161
• ISBN 13: 9781032452166
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 10D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 289 grams

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Synopsis

Case Formulation in Contemporary Psychotherapy presents a new approach to case conceptualization and case formulation, making meaning from each clinical case and using every piece of data available.

Robert Mendelsohn explains his core basic principles for case formulation, allowing the clinician to assess a case quickly and accurately. This book includes a discussion of the contributions of transference and countertransference, inducement and enactment, as well as the use of paradigmatic techniques, humor, and language. The processes presented, alongside vignettes illustrating their use, will allow clinicians to decode the meaning of all clinical interaction and to communicate that meaning in a helpful way to students and patients.

Providing a new way to access a full range of conscious and preconscious clinical information, Case Formulation in Contemporary Psychotherapy will be essential reading for mental health professionals including psychotherapists and psychodynamic and psychoanalytic clinicians in practice and in training. It will also be of great interest to students of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

About the Author

Robert Mendelsohn (Ph.D., ABPP) is Professor of Psychology and former Dean at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology of Adelphi University, USA. He has been teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy to mental health professionals for almost 50 years.