Hanna Levenson provides an overview of brief dynamic therapy, a
time-efficient treatment in which the therapist maintains a focus on
specific client goals within a psychodynamic conceptual framework.
Common characteristics of these approaches include time management,
defined focus, circumscribed goals, active therapist participation,
rapid assessment, prompt intervention, an awareness of unconscious
processes, and techniques that quickly foster a strong alliance with the
client.
This concise volume focuses largely on one popular model in particular:
time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP). TLDP is an integrative
approach that uses techniques from attachment theory, interpersonal
neurobiology, affective-experiential learning, and systems orientations
to help clients with long-standing, dysfunctional ways of relating to
others. The author explores this integrative, culturally-sensitive
approach, its theory, history, the therapy process, primary change
mechanisms, empirical basis, and future developments.
This revised edition includes updated case examples, as well as a wealth
of new research findings -- including process-outcome studies -- that
affirm treatment effectiveness, explain how alliance ruptures are
repaired, and new research on the "reconsolidation process" that
demonstrates how sudden, dramatic change happens in brief dynamic
therapy.
