This substantially revised fifth edition of a classic text includes an updated preface, new content on the therapeutic relationship, substantially revised chapters on the middle phase of counselling and reflections on the influence of other modalities and shared aspects of practice across approaches. Each chapter now includes an annotated Further Reading section to help deepen knowledge and reinforce learning of key aspects of the counselling process.
Table of Content
Foreword by John D. Sutherland
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Introducing the Psychodynamic Approach
The First Session
After the First Session
The Importance of Time and Boundaries
The Middle Phase of Counselling: Depth and Defensiveness
The Middle Phase of Counselling: The Centrality of the Therapeutic Relationship
Breaks and Endings
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, 2nd 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.
More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
127,786 Ebooks in this category
