Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy

Selected Works of Howard Bacal
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-94448-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: World Library of Mental Health

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

The book includes several key pieces of writing influenced by psychoanalytic figures Bacal had the rare opportunity to study under including Michael Balint, Wilfred Bion, Heinz Kohut, Marion Milner, J. D.  Sutherland, and Donald Winnicott. The chapters variously describe how the concept of optimal responsiveness is pivotal to the uniqueness of therapeutic need and how each psychoanalytic dyad discovers its unique capacity to implement it.  Bacal describes how this led him to develop specificity theory, a process theory of therapeutic possibility.

Discovering Therapeutic Efficacy is replete with illustrative clinical examples. It will be of great interest, and of practical usefulness not only to psychoanalysts, but to every practitioner of dynamic psychotherapy as they strive to be as optimally responsive as they can to their patients and students.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bacal, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  1. My Psychoanalytic Advenute- 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  8. Is Empathic Attunement Always the Optimal Response?  9. The Use of Theory In Psychoanalytic Practice  10. Specificity Theory: The Evolution of 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

Über Autor(innen)

Howard Bacal is a psychiatrist based in Los Angeles, USA. He has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and has more than 60 years’ experience in the field.