Publisher Description

Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy developed for the treatment of mood disorders. It is being rolled out as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative as the psychodynamic model for the treatment of depression.This book is a user-friendly, practical guide for the implementation of a brief psychodynamic intervention in routine clinical practice as well as in researchprotocols. It sets out clearly the theoretical framework, as well as the rationale and strategies for applying DIT with patients presenting with mood disorders (depression and anxiety). Throughout, itis illustrated with detailed examples that help the reader to implement the approach in their practice. The book will be required reading to support the national IAPT training initiative, as well as providing a resource for mental health professionals specialising in psychodynamic psychotherapy and wishing to work within a limited time frame.

Author Biography

Professor Alessandra Lemma is Director of the Psychological Therapies Development Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst. She is Visiting Professor, Research Dept of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College, and Visiting Professor of Psychological Therapies, School of Health and Human Sciences at Essex University. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society.She has published several books and papers on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.Professor Mary Target is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst. She is Professor of Psychoanalysis, Research Dept of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London; she is also Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre. She is a Fellow of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and Course Organiser of UCL's Masters in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies and Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She carries out research on childand adult attachment, personality functioning and mentalization, and has a part-time psychoanalytic practice.Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London; Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London; and Consultant to the Child and Family Program at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is also a fellow of the British Academy.

Table of Contents

1: Dynamic-Interpersonal Therapy (DIT): New Wine in an Old Bottle?2: Why DIT for Mood Disorders?3: Core Features and Strategies4: The Initial Phase5: The Interpersonal-Affective Focus (IPAF)6: The Middle Phase7: Techniques8: Working in the transference9: The Ending Phase10: When Things Wrong11: When Things Wrong

Review

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology is a massive collection of perspectives between two hard covers. It is hardly vacation reading, but its perusal can offer the interculturalist a couple of benefits. First, it provides a perspective on what is happening in psychological research that both reflects intercultural theory and perhaps challenges it and may add to it Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy: A Clinician's Guide is essential reading for mental health professionals who wish to continue to work psychodynamically in the public health sector. It is an impressive and accessible protocol and, as such, is to be highly recommended to neuroscientists and psychodynamic psychotherapists alike who attempt to treat patients with mood disorders-anywhere in the world. * Neuropsychoanalysis *

Long Description

Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy developed for the treatment of mood disorders. It is being rolled out as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative as the psychodynamic model for the treatment of depression.This book is a user-friendly, practical guide for the implementation of a brief psychodynamic intervention in routine clinical practice as well as in research
protocols. It sets out clearly the theoretical framework, as well as the rationale and strategies for applying DIT with patients presenting with mood disorders (depression and anxiety). Throughout, it is illustrated with detailed examples that help the reader to implement the approach in their
practice. The book will be required reading to support the national IAPT training initiative, as well as providing a resource for mental health professionals specialising in psychodynamic psychotherapy and wishing to work within a limited time frame.

Review Quote

"In sum, brief dynamic interpersonal therapy is a first-rate addition to the collection of brief dynamic treatment manuals from which practitioners, researchers, and students can choose. In my opinion it has four unique contributions: (a) the extensive discussion of therapist competencies; (b) the step-by-step guide to formulating a therapeutic focus; (c) the specific guidelines for making transference interventions; and (d) the requirement to gather session-by-session data on treatment progress and to feed this information back into the therapeutic work. This manual will be a valuable resource for the category of readers that I mentioned. Already, I use it in a brief therapy seminar that I teach. My students have found it readable and believe that it has contributed to their understanding of the processes and procedures associated with brief dynamic therapies." -- Jeffrey L. Binder, PhD, ABPP, Psychoanalytic Psychology

Feature

Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is an important new psychodynamic therapy, which is being used as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies initiative. This is the first and only book to explain the theory and practical application of DIT
Written by the practitioners who have developed and tested the therapy, resulting in an authoritative account of DIT
As part of the IAPT initiative in the UK, this is a book that will have a considerable readership, whilst also appealing to psychodynamic practitioners in the US

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