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This book can be regarded as a follow-up to Psychodynamic psychotherapy: a clinical manual, from 2011 (Cabaniss et al.), which received very positive reviews:
Ann H. Appebaum wrote in Psychoanalytic Psychology1:
For a book presented as a manual, a how-to-do-it book, it is gratifying to see that in addition to fulfilling their stated purpose admirably, the authors have gone well beyond it by writing what amounts to a textbook with recommended readings for each chapter and a guide to further reading to point the interested reader toward enrichment. Throughout the book, one sees evidence that the authors “have been there, seen that, and done the right thing about it.” They have distilled their long experience into clear and readable prose; resorting minimally to jargon; they speak directly to the likely concerns of students. I recommend the book for its intended audience and for anyone interested in the art and science of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
And this came from Anna Yusim in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease2:
Although it is meant as a book for initial learning, this is the kind of book that will remain on the reader´s desk as a frequently thumbed companion and references.
As the authors write “despite the centrality of psychodynamic formulation to our work with patients, few students are taught how to construct them in a clear systematic way.” Their book now offers students, trainers as well as professionals from all fields of mental health care a practical, operationalized method for constructing psychodynamic formulations with emphasis on the following steps:
describing problems and patterns
reviewing the developmental history
linking problems and patterns to history using organizing ideas about development.
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