The Evidence for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Contemporary Introduction
Part of Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series - more in this series

Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : April 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 192
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 98021
- ISBN 13 : 9781032346410
- ISBN 10 : 1032346418
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This book delivers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the evidence for psychodynamic psychotherapy through explanations of research organized around therapy processes relevant to practicing clinicians and informed researchers.
Each chapter presents an event within dynamic therapy, from interpretation to termination, along with a narrative to help readers understand the why and the how of the process. The authors discuss evidence for interpretation not only in relation to symptom change and outcome, but also in relation to research on the need for accuracy to a formulation and responsive timing to the client. Written in accessible and engaging language, each short chapter is a synthesis of findings in each topic area, going beyond subjects interesting only to researchers to aspects of practice relevant to therapists of all schools of thought.
The Evidence for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is written for therapists to pick up and put down between clients, for mental health researchers to quickly find support for a point they wish to make, and for educators to assign brief readings to bolster students’ confidence in dynamic therapy.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section 1: Foundations
1. Defining Psychodynamic Therapy
2. Scientific Philosophies and Psychodynamic Therapy
3. Outcomes in Psychodynamic Therapy
Section 2: Therapeutic Relationship
4. Transference in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
5. Countertransference in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
6. Therapeutic Alliance in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
7. Alliance Rupture and Repair in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
8. Real Relationship in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Section 3: Interventions
9. Supportive Techniques in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
10. Expressive Techniques in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Section 4: Time
11. Socialization in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
12. Working Through in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
13. Termination in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
14. Time-Limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Section 5: Mechanisms
15. Insight in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
16. Defenses in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
17. Attachment in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
18. Quality of Object Relations in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
19. Mentalization in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
20. Brain Changes in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Section 6: Adaptations
21. Children and Adolescents in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
22. Indentity Diversity in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Conclusion
About the Author(s)
Kevin McCarthy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Professional Psychology at Chestnut Hill College and Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Residency Psychotherapy Curriculum in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Liat Leibovich is a clinical psychologist and licensed supervisor in psychotherapy and psychodiagnosis. She works at both a children's home and in private practice, and is a lecturer at the Mifrasim Institute, Israel.
Carla Capone is a clinical psychology PsyD student at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, USA.
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