Expanding Your Clinical Repertoire: Psychoanalytic Ideas You Can Use to Help Patients

By Jeff Fine-Thomas and Nancy McWilliams

How do I help particular patients to become more psychologically minded? How do I understand the meanings behind their communications? What can I do to reestablish the therapeutic alliance after a rupture in the relationship? From master clinicians, this uniquely integrative guide presents contemporary psychodynamic ideas and techniques to expand any therapist's clinical repertoire, regardless of orientation. Jeff Fine-Thomas and Nancy McWilliams explain how psychoanalytic principles can aid in making sense of a client's presenting problems, positioning treatment for success, overcoming common roadblocks, and fostering meaningful growth. Brief vignettes and chapter-length case examples illustrate ways to weave carefully selected psychodynamic strategies into the beginning, middle, and end phases of treatment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1462565387
• ISBN13: 9781462565382
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"