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Record Nr.

UNINA9911016063303321

Autore

Bacal Howard

Titolo

Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy : Selected Works of Howard Bacal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2025

Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-04-040735-8

1-003-57080-1

1-04-040730-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Collana

World Library of Mental Health Series

Classificazione

PSY026000

Disciplina

616.8917

Soggetti

Nonfiction

Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. My Psychoanalytic Adventure: A Quest to Conceptualize Therapeutic Efficacy -- 2. Notes on Some Therapeutic Challenges in the Analysis of Severely Regressed Patients -- 3. Optimal Responsiveness and the Therapeutic Process -- 4. British Object-Relations Theorists and Self Psychology: Some Critical Reflections -- 5. The Selfobject Relationship in Psychoanalytic Treatment -- 6. The Psychoanalyst's Selfobject Needs and the Effect of Their Frustration on the Treatment: A New View of Countertransference -- 7. Shame: The Affect of Discrepancy-Commentary on Chapters 1, 2, and 3 -- 8. Is Empathic Attunement Always the Optimal Response? -- 9. The Use of Theory in Psychoanalytic Practice -- 10. Specificity Theory: A Process Theory of Psychoanalytic Treatment -- 11. The Budapest School's Concept of Supervision: Michael Balint's Legacy to the Development of Psychoanalytic Specificity Theory -- 12. Discovering Optimal Responsiveness within the Salience of Emergent Process -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy brings together selected papers and book chapters by Howard Bacal, spanning 40 years as a psychoanalyst,



psychiatrist and psychotherapist.