Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique

by Patricia Coughlin Della Selva and Patricia Coughlin

Book Overview

Traditional psychoanalytic thinking dictates that the only way to help most patients achieve significant insight resulting in lasting change is through a rigorous course of lengthy treatment involving anywhere from two to five sessions a week. Needless to say, the prospect of such a monumental therapeutic undertaking is repugnant to health insurers and clearly beyond the means of the majority of patients. As a consequence, the past two decades have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471047171
• ISBN13: 9780471047179
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.