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Chapter 3 - Referral for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Processes and Considerations

from Section 1 - Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2021

By
Jo O’Reilly
Edited by
Rachel Gibbons  and
Jo O'Reilly
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Summary

For the patient, a referral to psychodynamic psychotherapy services is a highly meaningful and intensely personal experience. It offers potential to uncover the deeper issues behind whatever is troubling them and to explore areas of their emotional life beyond their conscious awareness. It is a bold step for the patient to cross this threshold, involving painful realisations and profound readjustments to their understanding of themselves and others. Alongside these challenges are the potential gains of improved mental health and function and the achievement of lasting changes in their relationships. This chapter will outline some of the issues important to consider in making and progressing such a referral.

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Seminars in the Psychotherapies , pp. 37 - 47
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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