Robert Mendelsohn (Ph.D., ABPP) is Professor of Psychology and former Dean at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology of Adelphi University, USA. He has been teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy to mental health professionals for almost 50 years.

Foreword by Robert F. Bornstein

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1

The History of Case Formulation and Treatment Planning; From Freud (1918) to W. Reich, (1946) From Reich to T. Reik, (1948, 1959) from Reik to Bion, (1962, 1976) and Winnicott, (1960, 1971) to Billow & Mendelsohn, (1990)

Chapter 2

The Fourteen Clinical Processes Involved in My Approach to Case Formulation including: Countertransference, Inducement, Enactment, Projective Identification, Gratuitous Remarks, The Clinical Use of Many Processes Including Paradigmatic Techniques (And 'My Technical Use of My 'Sense of Humor')

Chapter 3

Early Clinical Examples of My Knowing Without Consciously Knowing What I Unconsciously Knew

Chapter 4

What Is Parallel Process and How Does It Enrich Our Understanding of Psychodynamic Case Formulation and the Preconscious Transmission of Clinical Data?

Chapter 5

Magical Processes in Psychotherapy and The Magic of Dream Interpretation

Chapter 6

Magical Processes in Case Consultation, Case Formulation and Treatment Planning

Chapter 7

Conclusion: Creating A Space for Magic to Occur/Teaching the Magic to Others

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