Case Formulation in Contemporary Psychotherapy

Robert Mendelsohn (Ph.D., ABPP) is Professor of Psychology and former Dean at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology of Adelphi University, USA. He has been teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy to mental health professionals for almost 50 years.

• Foreword by Robert F. BornsteinPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 The History of Case Formulation and Treatment Planning; From Freud (1918) to W. Reich, (1946) From Reich to T. Reik, (1948, 1959) from Reik to Bion, (1962, 1976) and Winnicott, (1960, 1971) to Billow & Mendelsohn, (1990)Chapter 2The Fourteen Clinical Processes Involved in My Approach to Case Formulation including: Countertransference, Inducement, Enactment, Projective Identification, Gratuitous Remarks, The Clinical Use of Many Processes Including Paradigmatic Techniques (And ’My Technical Use of My ‘Sense of Humor’)Chapter 3Early Clinical Examples of My Knowing Without Consciously Knowing What I Unconsciously KnewChapter 4What Is Parallel Process and How Does It Enrich Our Understanding of Psychodynamic Case Formulation and the Preconscious Transmission of Clinical Data?Chapter 5 Magical Processes in Psychotherapy and The Magic of Dream InterpretationChapter 6Magical Processes in Case Consultation, Case Formulation and Treatment PlanningChapter 7Conclusion: Creating A Space for Magic to Occur/Teaching the Magic to OthersAbout The Author

"A professor's professor, Dr. Mendelsohn brings one of his legendary courses to the world outside of his beloved school. With this book, he extends Theodore Reik's legacy and provides a contemporary psychoanalytic guide to case formulation and treatment planning that is at once practical and magical." J. Christopher Muran, Ph.D., Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University; Mount Sinai Beth Israel Psychotherapy Research Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University