Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy : Selected Works of Howard Bacal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacal, Howard.

Series:

World Library of Mental Health Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-040735-8

1-003-57080-1

1-04-040730-7

9781003570806

OCLC:

1531322766

Publisher Number:

CIPO000235525