La formulación psicodinámica de caso. Su valor para la práctica clínica [Psychodynamic case formulation: Its value for clinical practice]*

The book includes contributions from Luján Alsina, Juan José Dapueto, Ana Laura Hernández, Alejandra Laxague, Rodolfo Moguillansky, Ana

Mokszanski, Gabriela Montado, Silvia Nussbaum, Elena Turim, and Luis Villalba.

One of this book's key achievements is that it has filled a gap in the psychodynamic literature in Spanish. As its title suggests, it introduces the psychodynamic case formulation (PCF) and its uses in clinical psychotherapy. In the last chapter, Miller and Altmann de Litvan (p. 384) discuss the meaning and appropriateness of this term when they depict the current status of the field of psychotherapy in the River Plate. More specifically, they outline the criticisms directed against psychoanalysis, which have questioned its rigidity, duration, and even effectiveness. These authors argue that such criticisms are tied to social changes that require us to rethink therapeutic theories and techniques. La formulación psicodinámica de caso addresses this challenge by presenting a perspective on psychodynamic clinical practice that is informed by research, patient-centered, and clear about therapists’ responsibility. The goal is to benefit the patient and, more broadly, to further develop the discipline and its practice.

In the same line, it should be stressed, as Bernardi does in the introduction (p. 17), that the book's approach places psychoanalysts among psychotherapists of all schools, for while the focus here is on the formulation of the psychodynamic case, there are other theoretical perspectives that also use case formulation. The latter is a way of conceptualizing and presenting clinical cases. Its basic goal is to increase the probability that a therapeutic intervention will be useful for the patient by choosing the most suitable approach for this particular case. It can, therefore, arouse any practitioner's interest (McWill