| Abstract: | Discusses the author's treatment manual for supportive-expressive psychoanalytic psychotherapy written to train therapists in this form of treatment. The author addresses the relevance of psychiatric severity for technique, the importance of the therapeutic alliance, the need to make reliable dynamic formulations of the central relationship pattern, the need to focus on convergence of the central relationship pattern with the interpretations, and the need to pay attention to the maintenance of benefits. Typical resistances by trainees to teaching efforts are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
