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Title: Psychoanalytic Case Formulation by Nancy McWilliams ISBN: 1-57230-462-6 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 26 March, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Our class loved this book!
Comment: Tonight as we handed in our "take home final exams" for a Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy class we all agreed that this book (a required text) was a good read. The author shared her experiences as a therapist in such a practical way, and gave us a taste of how to approach psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective. Due to limited time this semester, I skimmed through a couple of the chapters (don't tell the prof)and actually look forward, during Christmas break, to more carefully reading each chapter.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic for (psychodynamic?) therapists
Comment: Few books on *psychoanalytic* therapy offer such an excellent combination of theory and *application*. Want to know what to do in therapy once you recognize your patient's defenses, patterns, level of self-esteem, issues with affect, etc? Get this book. You do not know basic psychoanalytic tenets? The theory is there as well.
Some people think this book is only for beginners. I disagree. It seems simple because McWilliams is a gifted writer and teacher, and has a knack to explain the most difficult concepts with everyday language that a 6 year old would understand. If you want an easy read with a lot of substance, read McWilliams. If you want a painful read with little substance, read Lacan (haha.) I am a beginner therapist, and this book has helped me immensely. The professor that recommended it has been practising for 35 years and *still* finds it useful. (Note: he is a renowned clinician and scholar... not just anybody)
Every sentence counts. There is no superfluous material here. You get your every penny's worth of information. The book is also a page-turner--since when is a textbook supposed to be this enjoyable??? And McWilliams, who is obviously comfortable in her own skin, does not show the dogmatism that is typical in other writers. She is open to admit the usefulness of other approaches to therapy, and this very openness makes this text a useful resource for anyone interested in psychotherapy, even if they are coming from a different approach (cognitive behavioral, humanistic...).
Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Read
Comment: Nancy Mc Williams is imminently readable. She has the gift of de-mystifying difficult concepts; or, put another way, she does not apparently have ego-needs that compel her to make the concepts of psychotherapy, or the field itself, obtuse. She also has quite an ability to cut-to-the-chase. Consider, for example, her description of "insight": "Part of the emphasis on understanding is that the two of them [patient and therapist] need something to talk about while the nonspecific relational factors are doing their quiet healing." Her personality shows through in her writing, so you will learn at two levels -- what she is telling you explicity,which is invaluable, and what she is telling you implicitly -- what it is about her that makes her so effective -- and believe me, you would want her to be your therapist, supervisor, whatever. As an aside, she seems to have a particular interest in, and gift for working with, addicts and sociopaths. Read the book, make charts, keep it at hand. It's a good read.
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Title: Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process by Nancy McWilliams ISBN: 0898621992 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought by Stephen A. Mitchell, Margaret J. Black ISBN: 0465014054 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy : A Practitioner's Guide by Nancy McWilliams ISBN: 1593850093 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 18 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, Third Edition by Glen O. Gabbard ISBN: 1585620025 Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pr Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
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Title: An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis by Charles Brenner ISBN: 0385098847 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 10 April, 1974 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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