Psychodynamic Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)

Jacobs, Michael

ISBN 10: 0803980469 / ISBN 13: 9780803980464

Published by SAGE Publications Ltd, 1988

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Psychodynamic Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803980469
• ISBN 13: 9780803980464
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Good

About this title

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 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.