Psychodynamic Techniques: Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship

By Karen J. Maroda

Acclaimed for its practical guidance and candid, personal style, this instructive book is now in a revised and updated second edition.

Karen J. Maroda explores the vital role of emotion processing in the therapeutic relationship and presents ways that therapists can work with emotions—both their own and the client’s—to make treatment more effective. The book discusses how to become more attuned to one’s own experience of a client, use direct feedback and self-disclosure constructively, and manage intense feelings and conflict in the relationship. Specific techniques are illustrated with vivid case material, including examples of both successful and unsuccessful interventions.

New to This Edition:

Chapter on transference and extratransference.
Chapter on the ethics of self-disclosure.
Significantly revised chapter on regression.
Updated throughout with over 15 years of developments in theory and research.

Available wherever you buy books or purchase directly from Guilford Press.

Karen J. Maroda, PhD, ABPP, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin and is in private practice in Milwaukee. She is the past ethics chair and a board member of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association and past president of Division 39’s Section III, Women, Gender, and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Maroda has published several books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews. She lectures nationally and internationally on a variety of aspects of the therapeutic process, including the place of affect, self-disclosure, countertransference, legitimate authority, enactment, the analyst’s gratification, and the need for clinical guidelines. Dr. Maroda serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is a corresponding editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She actively encourages her colleagues to write and talk about what they actually do as therapists.

Praise for Psychodynamic Techniques

The process of reading the book parallels the process of a successful therapy in which one has come to engage with and trust her guide and emerges a more flexible, confident, insightful person and professional. Maroda’s continued reassurances and frank openness to sharing her own vulnerabilities leaves the reader feeling infused with a sense of possibility that a fuller, deeper therapeutic relationship is possible.”

—Psychotherapy (on the first edition)

“Maroda illustrates all of the basic principles with honest and explicitly detailed case examples from her own practice….This book is an empirically substantiated, practical guide to the therapeutic landscape.”

—Division/Review (on the first edition)

“Written primarily for new therapists, this book has a broader appeal….Extends our understanding of the psychodynamic approach.”

—Therapy Today (on the first edition)

By Karen J. Maroda

Praise for Psychodynamic Techniques

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