Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Alessandra Lemma, an experienced clinician, provides step-by-step guidelines and useful pointers to the various stages of therapy for novices and relative newcomers to the field. Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy shows you:

• how to make a transference interpretation
• how to assess and formulate
• how to work with defences and manage endings
• how to listen to unconscious communication
• extensive case study examples.

This book is invaluable for students of clinical psychology at all levels, as well as psychotherapists, doctors, nurses, social workers and counsellors.