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Nothing derails a therapy session more than when the therapist is defending against being wrong and continues to pursue a topic that the client has rejected-or fails to notice that the client has withdrawn and is no longer emotionally available. p. 83
Written at a time when training in psychodynamic psychotherapy is nearly nonexistent, Karen Maroda's book Psychodynamic Techniques: Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship is a profoundly needed corrective for a wide range of clinicians and academics. Maroda has integrated current findings in psychological, psychosocial, attachment/developmental and neurophysiological research with the emerging empirical literature on the efficacy of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy. Her timing is impeccable! Psychodynamic psychotherapy is almost impossible to find in graduate school curricula; derived as it is from psychoanalytic principles, it can be argued that until psychodynamic clinicians submit to the gods of empiricism, the craft will continue to be viewed as an antiquated (albeit charming) piece of literature. Maroda's book is destined to play a crucial role in grounding psychodynamic theory in empirical demonstrability and practical utility, serving as the basis for any thorough-going clinical technique. This book serves as one of the few linchpins that just may resituate psychodynamic theory as the cornerstone of sound clinical theory and technique.
Pitched to new trainees, this book offers much to those who teach psychodynamic psychotherapy to the neophyte as well as the more experienced. Most of the beginners' texts from the past were written from an ego-psychological perspective and did not have the benefit of current attachment and neurophysiological research to substantiate the claims of dynamic processes. Maroda's text provides this bridge and is written from a relational perspective, clearly at the contemporary cutting edge. But she doesn't simply state the basic premises of relational psychoanalysis (