Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics present an extensive examination of the basic principles of dynamic psychotherapy. It discusses the concept of constructive aggression. It addresses the analysis of expressive and defensive mechanisms.
Some of the topics covered in the book are the therapeutic effects from history taking; common syndromes of sexual problems in women; qualities needed by a therapists; characteristics of unconscious communication; common syndromes of problems of masculinity in men; evolution and analysis of Oedipus complex; and Koch's postulates in psychodynamics. The passive defenses against aggression and the link with depression are fully covered. An in-depth account of the meaning of paranoid feelings is provided. The evaluation of the oedipal depression in men and women are completely presented. A chapter is devoted to the identification of transference neurosis. Another section focuses on the origin of human aggression. The analysis of phobic anxiety, anorexia nervosa, and hypochondriasis are briefly covered.
The book can provide useful information to psychologists, therapists, students, and researchers.

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Psychotherapy in Everyday Life
The Economics Student
1. Inner Mechanisms in Everyday Life
  Nine Stories
  The Spoilt Son
  The Anthropologist and the Cat
  Upsetting the Sugar
  The Franciscans in the Middle Ages
  Sour Grapes
  Roberta in Hospital
  The Social Worker and her Father
  The Anatomy Viva
  The Snake and the Wasp
  Discussion
  Expressive and Defensive Mechanisms
  The Return of the Repressed
  Guilt and Concern
  Preliminary Summary
  The Application of these Concepts to Symptoms
  Depreciation or Rejection of What is Desired
  Unconscious Mechanisms and Feelings
  Self-Defeating and Self-Destructive Mechanisms
  The Triangle of Conflict
  The Effect on the Environment; Vicious Circles; Conjoint Therapy
  Summary
2. Unconscious Communication
  An Example of Association
  Association and Emotional Significance
  Unconscious and Preconscious
  Free Association in Psychotherapy
  Association and Communication
  Unconscious Communication in Everyday Life - Sandra and the Puppies
  The Neurological Patient
  Rapport and its Use in Psychotherapy
  The Here-and-Now; Transference
  The Interior Decorator
  The Girl Afraid of Breakdown
  The Military Policeman
  The Characteristics of Unconscious Communication
3. Elementary, though not Necessarily Easy, Psychotherapy
  Recapitulation
  Qualities Needed by a Therapist
  The Geologist
  The Question of Advice
  The Influence of the Past
  The Question of Therapeutic Effects
4. Elementary Psychotherapy Continued: Symptoms, Precipitating Factors, and Psychiatric Consultation
  Therapeutic Effects from History-Taking: The Drama Student
  The Adopted Son
  The Farmer's Daughter
  The Daughter with a Stroke
  Retrospect of Clinical Examples
5. A Note on the Observations of Psychoanalysis
6. Common Syndromes I: Sexual Problems in Women
  The Economics Student (Contd.)
  Mixed Feelings about Men
  The Director's Daughter
  Background and Complaints
  Anger with Men and with the Origin of Symptoms
  Oedipal Feelings
  Primitive Feelings
  Envy of Men
  The Pilot's Wife
7. Common Syndromes II: Problems of Masculinity in Men
  The Concert-Goer
  The Dental Patient
  The Articled Accountant
  The Minicab Driver
  Discussion
  The Indian Scientist
  Further Discussion
  The Oedipus Myth and the Male Oedipus Complex
  'Castration'
  Weak Fathers
  Dead or Absent Fathers
  The Relation with the Mother
  The Oedipus Complex and Evolution
  Love and Longing for the Father
  The Son in Mourning
  Conclusion
8. The Relation with the Therapist: 'Transference'
  Recapitulation
  History of Transference
  The Falling Social Worker - Two Different Kinds of Transference
  The Contralto: A Question of Trust
  The Mother of Four: Transference in the Initial Interview
  The Carpenter's Daughter: Transference in the Early Stages of Therapy
  Homosexual Transference
  The Son in Mourning (Contd.): Love of a Male Patient for a Male Therapist
9. The Dialog of Psychotherapy and the Two Triangles
  The Basic Principles of Dynamic Psychotherapy
  The Interior Decorator (Contd.), Illustrating Fluctuations in Rapport
  The Question of Reassurance
  The Interior Decorator (Contd.)
  'Defense Should be Interpreted Before Impulse'
  The Interior Decorator (Contd.)
  The Two Triangles
  Account of an Imaginary Therapy
  First Phase: Completion of the Triangle of Conflict in Relation to the Girl-friend (O)
  Second Phase: The Link with the Past (O/P Link)
  Third Phase: Resistance, and the Entry of Transference
  Fourth Phase: The Interpretation of the Resistance and the T/O Link
  Fifth Phase: Crisis, the T/P Link, Breakthrough
  Sixth Phase: The Threat of Termination, Relapse
  Seventh Phase: Acting out
  Eighth Phase: Over-determination - An Earlier Trauma
  The Use of Dreams in Dynamic Psychotherapy
  Eighth Phase (Contd.)
  Final Phase: Working Through Termination, Together with the T/P Link
  Comment
  Summary of Principles Illustrated by 'An Imaginary Therapy'
  The Two Triangles: General Principles
  The Universal Technique
10. Three Linked Themes: Aggression, Elimination of Bodily Products, and Obsessional Phenomena
  Recapitulation
  The Concept of Constructive Aggression
  The Discovery of Constructive Self-Assertion: The Almoner
  The Maintenance Man and the Meaning of a Urinary Phobia
  Elimination of Bodily Products
  The Maintenance Man (Contd.)
  Obsessional Anxiety and Fear of Aggression
  The Pesticide Chemist
  'Koch's Postulates' in Psychodynamics
  The Meaning of Obsessional Symptoms
  Aggression and Sibling Rivalry
  The Divorced Mother
  The Compulsion to Repeat
  The Divorced Mother (Contd.)
  Passive Defenses Against Aggression and the Link with Depression
11. An Introduction to Depression
  Depression and Miscarried Grief - The Nurse in Mourning
  The Nurse in Mourning, Initial Assessment Interview
  The Therapist's Role in Acute Grief
  The Nurse in Mourning, Motivation
  The Nurse in Mourning, Therapy
  The Issue of Ambivalence in Depression
  The Meaning of Paranoid Feelings
  Retrospect of Depressive Patients
  Oedipal Depression in Women
  Oedipal Depression in Men
  The Depressed Tailor
  The Son in Mourning (Contd.)
  Depression and Rejected Love
  Depressive Self-Reproaches
  Suicide
  Defensive Use of Genuine Feelings in Depression: A Man of Sorrows
  The Helping Profession Syndrome
12. Regression and Long-Term Therapy
  The Mental Welfare Officer
  The Carpenter's Daughter (Contd.)
  The Cricketer
  Discussion
  Regression and Dependence
  'Needs' and 'Demands'
  The 'Corrective Emotional Experience'
  Transference and the Transference Neurosis
13. Deeper Layers of Depression
  Maternal Deprivation
  The Depressive Position
  The Ghanaian Girl
  The Mother of Four (Contd.)
  The Convent Girl
  The Theme of Feeding
  The Irishwoman with the Cats: An Internal Persecutor
  The Personnel Manager: The Depressive Position
  The Treatment of Maternal Deprivation; Internal Spoiling
  The Personnel Manager (Contd.)
  Climax of Therapy: Reaching the Depressive Position
  Termination
  Follow-up
  An Important Word of Caution
14. Primitive Phenomena
  Psychodynamics and the Failure of Common Sense
  'Fed Upon His Mother's Tears' - An Experience under LSD
  The Cricketer: Attacking the Good
  The Refugee Musician and the Treatment of Near-Psychotic Patients
  The Technique with Near-Psychotic Patients
  The Refugee Musician (Contd.)
  The Depressive Position in a Pa…