TY - GEN AU - Howard, Susan TI - Skills in psychodynamic counselling & psychotherapy SN - 9781446285664 U1 - 616.8914 PY - 2017/// CY - New Delhi PB - SAGE KW - Psychodynamic psychotherapy KW - Counseling KW - Psychology N1 - The psychodynamic approach -- Becoming a therapist: the personal journey towards skilled practice -- Becoming a therapist: other ways to enhance personal growth -- Therapist as neurosurgeon: understanding the brain and the implications for psychotherapy -- Setting the scene for therapy: the therapeutic frame -- First sessions: the therapeutic alliance -- Working with unconscious communication -- Theory underlying technique: transference and countertransference -- Types of interpretation -- Interpreting the transference and countertransference -- Understanding and working with defences -- Managing the therapeutic process -- Assessment and formulation -- How do we know it works? And why has it been so difficult to spread the good news? ER -