Psychodynamic Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series) - Hardcover

Jacobs, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803980450 ISBN 13: 9780803980457

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

Psychodynamic Counselling in Action provides the counsellor and student of counselling with a clear guide to the major aspects of psychodynamic techniques and illustrates how they are capable of effective use in counselling itself.

Using the examples of two clients - a woman and a man - it illustrates the process of psychodynamic counselling, starting with the first meeting and moving through to the termination of the counselling. The book discusses, in clear and accessible fashion, such essential features of the psychodynamic method as the development of the first session, recording and understanding session material, limitations and boundaries in the counselling setting, defences, resistance, transference and the psychodynamic understanding of personality development.

About this title

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, 2^nd 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803980450
• ISBN 13: 9780803980457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144