A Map of the Mind: Toward a Science of Psychotherapy

by Brockman, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781887841146
• ISBN10: 1887841148
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Intl Universities Pr Inc

Summary

Written in an accessible style, making use of extensive case material, this valuable book demonstrates how to use a map and compass in clinical work, how to find one's bearings and maintain one's course. Here you will learn how the data of clinical psychiatry are gathered and then shaped from the first crude map of unknown territory into a working clinical formulation, the first organizing principle of therapy. Here you will also learn how to take the clinical situation, the face-to-face encounter between patient and therapist, and break that seamless experience into its parts.

The author walks the reader through the therapeutic process and discusses how each piece of data (first data, first meeting, mental status, transference, countertransference, resistance, defense mechanisms, history) must be examined with regard to its origin, meaning, direction, and strength.

Author Biography

Richard Brockman, M.D., is a psychiatrist and faculty member at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix	(4)
Acknowledgments	xiii
PART I: Background	3	(14)
1. Traveling Backwards	3	(6)
2. Affect and Attachment	9	(8)
PART II: Data and Hypothesis	17	(124)
3. First Data	17	(12)
4. First Meeting	29	(10)
5. The Mental Status Exam	39	(14)
6. Transference and Safety	53	(24)
7. Safety	77	(26)
8. Resistance	103	(14)
9. Defense Machanisms	117	(24)
PART III: The Centrality of Affect	141	(140)
10. History and Affect	141	(52)
11. Affect and Primitive Affect	193	(28)
12. Trauma and Affect	221	(26)
13. Affect and Medication	247	(6)
14. Affect and Formulation	253	(16)
15. Data, Hypothesis, Affect, and Map	269	(12)
References	281	(8)
Author Index	289	(2)
Subject Index	291