Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Guide to Clinical Practice

Dr. Levenson has managed to write an informative, helpful and entertaining book on psychotherapy. She has taken a bit of a literary risk by structuring the book around the dialogs of a student supervision group as they struggle to make sense of videotaped psychotherapy sessions, but Dr. Levenson manages to pull this off. In fact, this literary device gives the book a liveliness and freshness rarely found in clinical writings. As a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor myself, I have found her concepts of immediate use in my daily work. Anyone who has worked in the field should particularly enjoy Dr. Levenson's liberating view of counter-transference as an inevitable reaction to a client's maladaptive interpersonal style - and not necessarily a signal for the therapist to run back for another decade of personal analysis.

Dr. Levenson's masterful didactic style reveals the elegance and simplicity of the time-limited dynamic model. The book provides moment-to-moment details of patient-therapist interactions and gives the reader a learning experience of remarkable immediacy. Dr. Levenson's clinical savvy and sophistication are evident on every page. Highly recommended for any clinician, regardless of orientation; you will find this highly readable, jargon-free presentation of time-limited dynamic psychotherapy an invaluable resource. A "must read" for clinicians who want to make every session count without sacrificing depth