Beginnings in Psychotherapy: A Guidebook for New Therapists

by Seth Eichler

Overview

Every new therapist faces a first session, often with trepidation. How do they prepare for that first session? How do they know what tools to apply on that first day, and over those first few weeks? Beginnings in Psychotherapy will help readers to begin to answer those questions and start psychotherapy with increased confidence. In addition it will provide readers with an understanding of the foundational tools and background, as well as providing a comfort level with the new territory of becoming a therapist. In a conversational, accessible tone, the author shares his years of experience, without being dogmatic or dense. Instead, he engages readers warmly, immediately helps them expand their understanding and often helps them look at the pros and cons of certain decisions, without insisting that the readers follow a particular rule or policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855758384
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2010
Pages:	140
Sales rank:	689,980
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Seth Eichler

Table of Contents

SECTION I. EXPANDING MINDS: LEARNING TO THINK ANALYTICALLY, SECTION II. TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES, SECTION III. GUIDEPOSTS FOR OUR WORK IN LISTENING AND INTERVENING, SECTION IV: “OUR PATIENTS ARE OUR TEXTBOOKS”;LESSONS FROM CLINICAL CASES (RAKO & MAZER, 1980), SECTION V: CONCLUSION

Editorial Reviews

Dr Eichler’s book is an invaluable resource for all mental health practitioners. It guides not only the beginning therapist, but also provides an exceptionally useful organizing structure for those engaged in educating and supervising the beginning therapist.

Rachel Blakeman

Dr. Seth Eichler has created a primer on dynamic psychotherapy that will inform therapists who are beginners as well as practitioners in search of concise clinical viewpoints. This volume manages to explain some of the most difficult psychoanalytic concepts in a precise manner that is both simple and informative. I highly recommend this book to both beginners and seasoned professionals.

Samuel Herschkowitz

This lively, easy to read guidebook for beginning therapists presents basic material to the new therapist in brief chapters that can be easily digested. It is filled with useful clinical examples, has enough theory to make sense of the clinical examples, but does not get bogged down in overly technical discussions or psychodynamic jargon. Dr. Eichler’s therapeutic empathy is here revealed toward his reader as he promptly anticipates questions that may occur to the beginner, either answering them on the spot or saying that they will be answered later in the volume. Everything written here is sensible and well thought out, and reading the book has the dual result of conveying essential information and comforting the reader. This volume is a find for new therapists and very instructive to those teachers who educate them.

Charles Tolk

Presenting the framework and guiding principles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the beginning therapist is a daunting challenge. Dr. Eichler expertly meets this challenge. The essentials of therapeutic interaction are concisely and lucidly explained and aptly illustrated with clinical vignettes. In this remarkable volume the fundamental principles of therapeutic technique, the underlying psychoanalytic theory from which technique derives, and the application of psychoanalytic formulations to clinical syndromes are discussed with insight. Conscious and unconscious, transference and counter-transference, regression and progression, all receive cogent explanation. Problems and pitfalls are carefully considered. Dr. Seth Eichler has created a source book on dynamic psychotherapy that will be richly rewarding for students of psychotherapy at all levels of experience.

Harold P. Blum

Presenting the framework and guiding principles of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the beginning therapist is a daunting challenge. Dr. Eichler expertly meets this challenge. The essentials of therapeutic interaction are concisely and lucidly explained and aptly illustrated with clinical vignettes. In this remarkable volume the fundamental principles of therapeutic technique, the underlying psychoanalytic theory from which technique derives, and the application of psychoanalytic formulations to clinical syndromes are discussed with insight. Conscious and unconscious, transference and counter-transference, regression and progression, all receive cogent explanation. Problems and pitfalls are carefully considered. Dr. Seth Eichler has created a source book on dynamic psychotherapy that will be richly rewarding for students of psychotherapy at all levels of experience.”

“This lively, easy to read guidebook for beginning therapists presents basic material to the new therapist in brief chapters that can be easily digested. It is filled with useful clinical examples, has enough theory to make sense of the clinical examples, but does not get bogged down in overly technical discussions or psychodynamic jargon. Dr. Eichler’s therapeutic empathy is here revealed toward his reader as he promptly anticipates questions that may occur to the beginner, either answering them on the spot or saying that they will be answered later in the volume. Everything written here is sensible and well thought out, and reading the book has the dual result of conveying essential information and comforting the reader. This volume is a find for new therapists and very instructive to those teachers who educate them.”

“Dr. Seth Eichler has created a primer on dynamic psychotherapy that will inform therapists who are beginners as well as practitioners in search of concise clinical viewpoints. This volume manages to explain some of the most difficult psychoanalytic concepts in a precise manner that is both simple and informative. I highly recommend this book to both beginners and seasoned professionals.”

“Dr Eichler’s book is an invaluable resource for all mental health practitioners. It guides not only the beginning therapist, but also provides an exceptionally useful organizing structure for those engaged in educating and supervising the beginning therapist.

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