Introducing Contemporary Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy: the Art and Science of the Unconscious

PART ONE: Setting the scene

1. Introduction – The meaning of psychodynamic theory in therapy   
2. Understanding the past – How did we get here?     
3. Understanding the present – The role of research     
4. Encountering the new – Meeting a dancing landscape
    
PART TWO: Meeting the unconscious

5. Who owns the unconscious?       
6. The evolving unconscious        
7. The implicit unconscious
        
PART THREE: How we develop

8. The infant unconscious – Oedipus, bad breasts, lines and stages   
9. Learning from babies – Attachment, the interpersonal self and infant research 
10. Learning from our brains – Infant development and neuroscience   
11. Learning about sexuality, gender and identity
     
PART FOUR: Clinical perspectives

12. When life goes wrong – Introducing psychopathology and trauma  
13. Foundational skills for practice       
14. Developing skills for practice       
15. Therapeutic engagement and the process of change