Psychodynamic Treatment of Depression

The advent of multiple effective psychopharmacologic interventions and targeted psychotherapeutic treatments has led to remarkable progress in the treatment of depression.
Yet despite this progress, the treatment of depression often continues to be a struggle.
Though books on other treatment approaches to depression abound, this insightful volume is unique because it offers a psychotherapeutic approach to the dynamics observed in patients with depression that can sharpen clinicians' skills in treating this disorder. Written from the point of view of a psychodynamic theoretician and clinician, it describes how to tailor this approach to treat patients with depression, using many vivid clinical case vignettes to illustrate common dynamic constellations and techniques for engaging patients in depression-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy. Also addressed here are topics of special concern in the psychotherapy of depression, including complex cases, treatment impasses, suicidality, and issues to consider when combining treatments.
Useful for practitioners, students, and residents as a clinical guide for learning about psychodynamic psychotherapy and its adaptation for treatment of a specific disorder, this practical volume, with its fascinating clinical case vignettes, is also an invaluable text for courses on psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic treatment approaches to depression.