Dynamic Psychotherapy Explained

by David Sinclair

Based on the highly successful fist edition, the long-awaited Dynamic Psychotherapy Explained, Second Edition is a concise but comprehensive overview of this important treatment. Assuming no prior knowledge the book is clear and straightforward, explaining the links between psychotherapy and other psychiatric treatments, and between neurobiology and psychology. It spells out the relationship between a biological and a psychological approach to mental functioning.This book places psychotherapy in its context in psychiatry. It outlines the important theories of dynamic psychotherapy, and is packed with clinical examples to illustrate theory and practice. It explains the dynamics of common psychiatric conditions, and shows how to write a dynamic formulation. Dynamic Psychotherapy Explained, Second Edition is essential reading for postgraduate trainees in psychiatry, mental health nurses, general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counsellors, medical and nursing undergraduates and junior doctors. Patients too can benefit from a simple explanation of how dynamic therapy relates to other treatments and how it works. Covering much of the information needed for the MRCPsych examination, the book is an excellent study and revision tool.

176 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 1989

Reviews

[Marc ZEIMET · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another book on psychotherapy?
A subject that is so multi-faceted, complex and not easily accessible to a lay person. This popular resource on the special medical field of psychotherapy is delivering to the interested reader who seeks entrance to this foreclosed world of knowledge, expertise, but also the underlying mechanisms which drive the outcomes in psychodynamic sessions.
Maybe the book has been written primarily for students in psychosocial up to nursing and medical professions, but it is easily readable for people without such a health professions background as well. It is compact, but then clear in its structure, the presentation of concepts, the explanation of psychodynamic mechanisms, always also providing the necessary definitions along with explanations, and very appreciated, case studies and their brief discussion.
Someone who wants to know more about the field of psychotherapy, especially on an introductory information level, namely what it is, what it is supposed to achieve, how it is done, by which professionals, their educational pathway, the training schemes, and many other aspects, finds a recommendable publication in this scientific book by Patricia Hughes. For some it may be a syllabus, a self-teaching course outline, certainly a 'companion book' to read more than once. Overall, a condensed set of reference materials of great value.