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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1. Psychotherapy in Everyday Life
   The Economics Student
   
   2. 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
   3. 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
   4. 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
   5. 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
   6. A Note on the Observations of Psychoanalysis
   7. 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
   8. 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
   9. 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
   10. 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
   11. 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
   12. 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
   13. 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
   14. 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
   15. 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 Paranoid Patient
       Discussion
       Oral, Anal, and Genital'
       The Foster Son: Savagery and Closeness
       The Origin of Human Aggression
   16. Termination and Breaks in Treatment
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