Download or read book Psychodynamic Therapy written by Richard F. Summers and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book's purpose is to promote a personalized psychodynamic therapy built on general psychodynamic knowledge and technique, free of jargon, and tailored to the needs of specific individuals. Personalized psychotherapy requires a deeper look under the hood of psychodynamic therapy; we discuss customizing techniques based on a therapeutic strategy for each individual patient that relies on an assessment of their core psychodynamic problem and strengths and weaknesses. We use over forty clinical examples of individuals in treatment in the book, with a wide variety of age, gender, race, culture and sexual preferences"--