Primer of Psychotherapy

by Gertrude Blanck

This book skillfully brings developments in psychotherapy up to date. Dr. Gertrude Blanck writes with a clarity and simplicity that can only be acquired with discerning and seasoned expertise. Extracting from the proliferation of complex and often contradictory popular schools of thought, she presents what is essential and fundamental in clinical work today. In a question-and-answer format, illustrated with patient-therapist dialogue, the practice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076570286X
• ISBN13: 9780765702869
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Dr. Blanck deftly employs a question-and-answer format

With her thoroughly "reader friendly" text, psychotherapist Gertrude Blanck's Primer Of Psychotherapy: A Developmental Perspective brings the reader fully up to date in contemporary psychotherapy theory and practice. Dr. Blanck deftly employs a question-and-answer format (illustrated with patient-therapist dialogue) to address a broad range of topics including treatment designs, building psychic structures, learning from symptoms and defenses, formulating a developmental diagnosis, teaching parenting skills, and determining when medication is advisable. The Primer Of Psychotherapy is especially recommended for graduate students in clinical psychology and social work, as well as practicing clinicians, supervisors, and residents.