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Time-limited Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Guide To Clinical Practice

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Dr. Levenson's masterful didactic style reveals the elegance and simplicity of the time-limited dynamic model. The book provides moment-to-moment details of patient-therapist interactions and gives the reader a learning experience of remarkable immediacy. Dr. Levenson's clinical savvy and sophistication are evident on every page. Highly recommended for any clinician, regardless of orientation; you will find this highly readable, jargon-free presentation of time-limited dynamic psychotherapy an invaluable resource. A "must read" for clinicians who want to make every session count without sacrificing depth

Dr. Levenson has managed to write an informative, helpful and entertaining book on psychotherapy. She has taken a bit of a literary risk by structuring the book around the dialogs of a student supervision group as they struggle to make sense of videotaped psychotherapy sessions, but Dr. Levenson manages to pull this off. In fact, this literary device gives the book a liveliness and freshness rarely found in clinical writings. As a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor myself, I have found her concepts of immediate use in my daily work. Anyone who has worked in the field should particularly enjoy Dr. Levenson's liberating view of counter-transference as an inevitable reaction to a client's maladaptive interpersonal style - and not necessarily a signal for the therapist to run back for another decade of personal analysis.