Becoming a Therapist What Do I Say, and Why?

by Bender, Suzanne; Messner, Edward

• ISBN13: 9781572308046
• ISBN10: 1572308044
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-20
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This book has been replaced by Becoming a Therapist, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4946-7.
 

Author Biography

Suzanne Bender, MD, is a Staff Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where she works with children and adolescents, and Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed an adult psychiatry residency and child psychiatry fellowship at MGH. Dr. Bender received the MGH Psychiatry Department's Psychodynamic Writing Award in 1998. She also has a private practice, specializing in psychotherapy with adolescents and adults.

Edward Messner, MD, is a Senior Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the United States Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. After his military service, Dr. Messner's psychiatric training consisted of 2 years of adult residency at the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, a year of child fellowship at the Thom Clinic in Boston, and then 2 years as a clinical and research fellow at MGH. He also completed psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. During Dr. Messner's career in the highly rated MGH Psychiatry Department, he has earned the Teacher of the Year award six times.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
I. THE CONSULTATION
First Contact	9	(10)
The First Moments	19	(7)
Initiating an Alliance and Assessing Safety	26	(14)
Enhancing the Therapeutic Alliance and Eliciting History	40	(27)
Collecting a Psychosocial History and Screening for Common Psychological Disorders	67	(21)
Formulating a Treatment Plan	88	(17)
II. FRAME AND VARIATIONS
The Frame	105	(4)
Setting the Fee and Billing	109	(25)
Telephone Calls: From Dependencies to Emergencies	134	(19)
No-Shows, Late Arrivals, and Late Departures	153	(21)
Confidentiality and Its Limits	174	(23)
III. CHEMISTRY
Substance Abuse	197	(19)
Integrating Psychopharmacology with Psychotherapy	216	(19)
IV. THERAPEUTIC DILEMMAS
Management of Impasses	235	(24)
Empathic Lapses	259	(18)
Transference and Countertransference	277	(14)
Termination	291	(18)
Epilogue	309	(2)
Glossary	311	(8)
Bibliography	319	(4)
Acknowledgments	323	(2)
Index	325