How to Practice Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method
How to Practice Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method
This clinically based manual takes readers through the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) which is the basis of a specific form of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (BPP). The CCRT method is research-supported and easily operationalized. The CCRT method offers symptom relief and limited but significant character change in a strongly interactive 16-session format. It focuses on helping the client to work through the circumscribed area of maladaptive functioning. After presenting general background about BPPs and a specific discussion of the CCRT rationale and process, the author offers the reader a portrait of CCRT therapy in action. In an extended clinical vignette, the reader may follow the therapist and client in a step-by-step manner, from initial session, to therapist formation, articulation and presentation of the CCRT. The volume outlines the 16-session course of therapy including termination and follow-up. This book will be of use to clinicians and directors of postgraduate psychology programmes, mental health training centres, psychiatric residency programmes and to students.
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5 Stars Enormously Helpful
I’ve been using this book for a number of years with my counseling students. Howard Book provides a very accessible framework that is tremendously helpful in clarifying client dynamics.
John Christopher, Ph.D.
Professor of Counseling Psychology
Montana State University
5 Stars Very worthwhile publication
I enjoyed this book immensely. It was refreshing to note that the “brief psychodynamic” perspective detailed by Book did not refer at all to the Freudian model of the psyche (id - ego - superego). Indeed the model presented could as easily have been termed “interpersonal relationship therapy”, as there was little to betray its psychodynamic roots. Book had no need for the traditional psychodynamic model in order to use this therapeutic modality so, citing parsimony, he left it out.
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