Psychodynamic Formulation
A leading text for psychodynamic clinicians and practitioners
Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach delivers an exceptional exploration of psychodynamic explanations and hypotheses that seek to explain how a person’s conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings may have developed and may be causing or contributing to the challenges they face.
This latest edition of the leading reference includes a refreshed and reinvigorated emphasis on the impacts of culture and society, as well as the importance of diversity and inclusion, on psychodynamic formulation. It puts new focus on lived experience, including trauma, and on how clinical bias can contribute to the perpetuation of trauma.
In addition to newly included activities and exercises, readers will find:
- A practical, step-by-step guide to collaboratively creating psychodynamic formulations
- Comprehensive discussions about how what we’re born with and environmental influences contribute to development
- Suggestions for using psychodynamic formulations in many clinical settings, including acute care and psychopharmacologic treatment
- An educator’s guide to teaching psychodynamic formulation
Perfect for mental health practitioners with a professional or personal interest in psychodynamics/psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach will earn a place in the libraries of trainees in all mental health fields.
Table of Contents
Preface x
Acknowledgments xiv
PART ONE Introduction to the Psychodynamic Formulation 1
1 What Is a Psychodynamic Formulation? 3
2 How Do We Create a Psychodynamic Formulation? 10
3 How Do We Use Psychodynamic Formulations? 14
4 Psychodynamic Formulation and Bias 18
5 Who We Are Affects Our Formulations 23
PART TWO DESCRIBE 29
6 Self 35
7 Relationships 44
8 Adapting 53
9 Cognition 62
10 Values 76
11 Work and Play 84
Putting It Together--DESCRIBE Problems And Patterns 93
PART THREE REVIEW 97
12 What We’re Born With 105
13 The Earliest Years 121
14 Middle Childhood 135
15 Later Childhood 143
16 Adolescence 149
17 Adulthood 155
Putting It Together--REVIEW a Life Story 161
PART FOUR LINK 165
18 Trauma 169
19 Early Cognitive and Emotional Difficulties 181
20 The Effects of Culture and Society 193
21 Conflict and Defense 205
22 Relationships with Others 214
23 The Development of the Self 225
24 Attachment 235
Putting It Together--LINK to Collaboratively
Create Psychodynamic Formulations 247
PART FIVE Psychodynamic Formulations in Clinical Practice 261
25 Psychodynamic Formulations in Acute Care Settings 263
26 Psychodynamic Formulations in Pharmacologic Treatment 273
27 Psychodynamic Formulations in Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy 282
28 Collaborative Formulations in Clinical Practice 291
End Note 298
Appendix A - An Educator's Guide to Using Psychodynamic Formulation: An Expanded Approach 299
Appendix B - DESCRIBE, REVIEW, LINK--An Outline 305
Recommended Reading 307
Index 316
