Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic / Object Relations

Now available in paperback. In this volume, different approaches to Psychodynamic/Object Relations approaches are examined. It covers the important issues in the field, with topics ranging from "psychodynamic psychotherapy with undergraduate and graduate students" to "a relational feminist psychodynamic approach to sexual desire" to "psychodynamic/object relations group therapy with shizophrenic patients."

Foreword xi
Leston Havens, MD

Preface xiii
Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP

Chapter 1 Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychotherapy: a Century of Innovations 1
Jeffrey J. Magnavita

Section One Psychotherapy with Children

Chapter 2 The Developmental Basis of Psychotherapeutic Processes 15
Stanley I. Greenspan

Chapter 3 Object-relations Play Therapy 47
Helen E. Benedict and Lara Hastings

Chapter 4 Infant Mental Health 81
Jeree H. Pawl and Maria St. John

Chapter 5 Psychodynamic Approaches to Child Therapy 105
Peter Fonagy and Mary Target

Section Two Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Young Adults

Chapter 6 Eating Disorders in Adolescence 133
Cecile Rausch Herscovici

Chapter 7 Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Undergraduate and Graduate Students 161
Paul A. Grayson

Section Three Psychotherapy with Adults

Chapter 8 Supportive-expressive Psychotherapy 183
Lynne R. Siqueland and Jacques P. Barber

Chapter 9 Brief Psychodynamic Therapy 207
Ferruccio Osimo

Chapter 10 An Object-relations Approach to the Treatment of Borderline Patients 239
John F. Clarkin, Kenneth N. Levy, and Gerhard W. Dammann

Chapter 11 Arelational Approach to Psychotherapy 253
J. Christopher Muran and Jeremy D. Safran

Chapter 12 Mastering Developmental Issues Through Interactional Object-relations Therapy 283
Cheryl Glickauf-Hughes and Marolyn Wells

Chapter 13 The Activation of Affective Change Processes in Accelerated Experiential-dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) 309
Diana Fosha

Chapter 14 Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy of Narcissistic Disorders 345
Manuel Trujillo

Chapter 15 Arelational-feminist Psychodynamic Approach to Sexual Desire 365
M. Sue Chenoweth

Section Four Psychotherapy with Families and Couples

Chapter 16 Object-relations Couples Therapy 387
Marion F. Solomon and Rita E. Lynn

Chapter 17 Self-object Relationship Therapy with Couples 407
Michael D. Kahn

Chapter 18 Relational Psychodynamics for Complex Clinical Syndromes 435
Jeffrey J. Magnavita

Section Five Group Psychotherapy

Chapter 19 Psychodynamically Oriented Group Therapy 457
William E. Piper, John S. Ogrodniczuk, and Scott C. Duncan

Chapter 20 Psychodynamic/object-relations Group Therapy with Schizophrenic Patients 481
José Guimón

Chapter 21 Group Therapy Treatment of Sex Offenders 501
Leslie M. Lothstein and Rosemarie LaFleur Bach

Section Six Special Topics

Chapter 22 Groups in Therapeutic Communities 529
José Guimón

Chapter 23 Psychodynamic Treatment for Cardiac Patients 549
Ellen A. Dornelas and Paul D. Thompson

Chapter 24 Race, Gender, and Transference in Psychotherapy 565
Mary F. Hall

Chapter 25 Contemporary Psychodynamics: Major Issues, Challenges, and Future Trends 587
Jeffrey J. Magnavita

Author Index 605

Subject Index 614

Editor in Chief: Florence Kaslow, Ph.D. is Director of the Florida Couples and Family Institute and President of Kaslow Associates in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. She is also a Visiting Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center (Durham, North Carolina) and a Visiting Professor of Psychology at Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. Kaslow is editor or author of 22 books, over 50 book chapters and 160 plus articles in the professional literature.

Volume 1: Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D., ABPP is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and is both a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist. He is the founder of the Connecticut Center for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and an adjunct professor of clinical psychology at the University of Hartford's Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology.

Volume 2: Terence Patterson, EdD is Director of Training in the Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of San Francisco, a Diplomat in Family Psychology (ABPP), and 2001 President of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association. His professional focus includes behavioral couple therapy, ethics, and theoretical paradigms.

Volume 3: Robert F. Massey, Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of the Marriage and Family M.S., Ed.S., and Ph.D. Programs in the Department of Professional Psychology and Family Therapy at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA. He is an Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a Certified Transactional Analyst. He writes on and researches integrative systems thinking, couple and family relationships, personality theories, and spirituality in contexts.

Volume 3: Sharon Davis Massey, Ph.D., is a licensed marriage and family therapist and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. She supervises the clinical work of university students and is an Adjunct Professor in the marriage and family programs at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA. Her professional interests center around the development of humans within their evolving contexts, supervision from an interpersonal-systemic frame of reference, and emergent models of scientific inquiry.

Volume 4: Jay Lebow, Ph.D., ABPP is a Senior Staff Therapist and Research Consultant at The Family Institute at Northwestern and Adjunct Associate Professor at Northwestern University. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and Board Certified in Family Psychology. He is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters, primarily dealing with integrative couple and family therapy, research assessing couple and family therapy, the evaluation of mental health treatment, and intervention and assessment in child custody disputes. His research focuses on outcome in couple and family therapy.