What is psychodynamic psychotherapy?
Treatment for a mind in motion
How does psychodynamic psychotherapy work?
Evaluation
Creating a safe place and beginning the evaluation
Assessment of ego function
Formulation: the problem, person, goals, resources model
Indications for psychodynamic psychotherapy
Beginning the treatment
Informed consent and setting goals
Setting the frame and establishing boundaries
Developing a therapeutic alliance
Therapeutic neutrality
Conducting a psychotherapy session: decisions about length and frequency
Our patients' feelings about us and our feelings about our patients
Empathic listening
Looking for meaning
Medication and therapy
Listen/reflect/intervene
Learning to listen
Learning to reflect
Learning to intervene
Conducting a psychodynamic psychotherapy: technique
Affect
Free association and resistance
Transference
Countertransference
Unconscious conflict and defense
Dreams
Meeting therapeutic goals
Improving self-perceptions and the ability to regulate self-esteem
Improving relationships with others
Improving characteristic ways of adapting
Improving other ego functions
Working through and ending
Working through
Termination
Continuing to learn.