Main description:

This book is based on 40+ years of experience in clinical practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis and clinical and academic teaching and research.
The book reviews some of the authors published articles, written over the last three to four decades, through the eyes of a psychiatrist who has worked in many different clinical venues.
A variety of clinical situations are covered, including group psychotherapy, partial hospitalization, and individual psychotherapy, as well as the application of psychoanalytic thought to a non-clinical area.

Contents:

Part A:PSYCHOANALYTIC UNDERSTANDING 1. Internal Images and External Bonds: A Little Psychoanalytic Theory 2. Who is My Patient? The Importance of Relational Anamnesis in Psychodynamic Formulation 3. Understanding and Management of Some More Severe Disturbances Part B: GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PARTIAL HOSPITALIZATION PROGRAMS 4. Danger from Within: Threats of Violence in Group Psychotherapy 5. Danger from Without: Threats of Violence to Third Parties in Group Psychotherapy 6. Freud in the Clinic: The Psychodynamic Psychiatry Service of the University of Alberta Hospital-A 30-Year History 7. Groups That Support Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy: The Function and Place of Structured Groups in Psychodynamically Oriented Day Treatment for Personality Disorders 8. Hatred and Fear: Projective Identification in Group Psychotherapy Part C: INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOANALYTIC/PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY 9.Clarification and Confrontation: Two Techniques of Supportive Psychotherapy 10. Coping with Catastrophic Feelings: Supportive Therapeutic Relationship with Patients Suffering from Chronic, Serious or Life-Threatening Illness-Lessons from HIV-AIDS-Related Illness 11. Whipped Cream and Other Delights: A Reverie and Its Aftermath