Main description:

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013

Sensitively updated and revised for modern practice, Anthony Storr's legendary work continues to be an indispensible introductory text for aspiring psychotherapists.

Professor Jeremy Holmes, a friend and colleague of Anthony Storr's and himself a leading psychotherapist, has updated this accessible and humane account of the practice of psychotherapy to include:

Integrative psychotherapeutic approaches
Revised classification of personality types
New sections on selection and assessment
Consideration of evidence-based psychodynamic practice
Broadened appeal to the full range of mental health professionals

Retaining Anthony Storr's wisdom, vision, and classic approach, whilst bringing the text totally up to date, this will be a cornerstone volume for beginner and experienced psychotherapists alike. It will also appeal to psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, nurses, social workers, counsellors, and other mental health professionals.

Contents:

The setting. The initial interview. Getting going: overcoming initial resistance. Making progress. Interpretation. Dreams, daydreams and creativity. The nature of the therapeutic relationship: boundaried intimacy. Transference and counter-transference. Diagnosis and psychodynamic formulation. Depression. Anxiety. Patterns of personality. The science of psychotherapy. The end of therapy. The life and work of a psychotherapist. Epilogue: Beyond therapy.