Introduction to Psychodynamic Counselling

Laurence Spurling was Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist in the National Health Service. He continues to teach and supervise and works now in private practice.

• Preface to the 4th editionIntroductionChapter One: General Principles of Therapeutic PracticeChapter Two: Basic Principles of the Psychoanalytic ApproachChapter Three: Creating and Maintaining a Psychodynamic SettingChapter Four: Dynamics and Structures of the MindChapter Five: The Inner WorldChapter Six: Transference and its ManifestationsChapter Seven: Working in the TransferenceChapter Eight: Phases of the Counselling WorkChapter Nine: Working with Psychotic and Borderline States of MindChapter Ten: Working with DifferenceChapter Eleven: The Organizational FrameworkFurther ReadingReferencesIndex

Spurling’s new edition expertly integrates traditional psychoanalytic constructs with the realities of contemporary counselling in an extraordinary fashion, helping both novice and experienced clinicians practice their craft with greater sophistication. With observations from the psychodynamic counselling “founders and masters”, such as Freud, Winnicott and Bowlby, this text explains how these theories apply to and can inform our best modern-day counselling service practices.