Psychoanalytic Approaches for Counselors

Fred Redekop earned his doctorate from the University of Iowa in 1997. His clinical experience includes providing in-home family counseling and psychotherapy, providing outpatient counseling and psychotherapy in hospital and community mental health settings, directing residential mental health treatment, and serving as the director of an outpatient clinic. He has facilitated groups addressing domestic violence, borderline personality disorder, anger management for adolescent males, and social skills groups for elementary schoolchildren. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Nationally Certified Counselor. He has taught in the Counseling Department at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania since 2008. In addition to authoring Psychoanalytic Approaches for Counselors and serving as editor for the Theories for Counselors series, he has presented at national conferences and is the author of peer-reviewed journal articles, invited journal articles and book chapters, and articles in print and online magazines aimed at professionals and the general public.

Introduction Who Was Sigmund Freud? The Relevance of Psychoanalysis Inauguration: To Mark the Beginning of a New Period, Style, or Activity Starting With the Two Most Important Common Factors: The Client and the Counseling Relationship Freud Versus Freud: What Did He Actually Do? Freud's Goody-goods: The Necessity of Collaboration Constructing a Counselor-Friendly Freud The Cause(s) of Mental Illness Transference and Countertransference Further Developments Summary Chapter 1: The Talking Cure The First Client: Bertha Pappenheim Intensive, Ongoing Treatment Catharsis and Hypnotism The Psychoanalytic Cure Listening to Pappenheim With Sympathy and Interest Pappenheim's Contemporary Importance Did Breuer Truly "Get" Pappenheim? Empathic Listening and Interpretation The Heroic Client Pappenheim's Amazing Transformation Primum Non Nocere-Above All, Do No Harm "The True Vehicle of Therapeutic Influence" The Therapeutic Relationship: What's It Really Like? Finding the Sweet Spot Summary Chapter 2: Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts How the Mind Works: The Structural Model and the Topographical Model The Topographical View The Ego in Conflict How People-and Problems-Develop Repression Freud's Mechanisms of Defense Repression, Revisited Denial Displacement and Projection Reaction Formation, Rationalization/Intellectualization, Introjection, Identification, Regression Sublimation Don't Forget: Sex Can Be Fun! The Therapeutic Aim of Psychoanalysis Resistance Progress, Slow and Steady Three Choices The Tools of Psychoanalysis: The Background of Freud's Technique The Return of Catharsis The Return of Rest Cures, Electrotherapy, and Psychopharmacology You Are Getting Very Sleepy... No Wait-Your Eyes Aren't Closing-They are Moving! Say Everything No Sex With Clients To What Degree Must We Abstain? Recommendations, Not Rules Thoughts and Feelings The Tools of Psychoanalysis: Interventions to Accomplish Its Aim First, Ally With the Ego Transference, Pros and Cons Free Association Dream Analysis Slips of the Tongue, Jokes, and Habitual Actions Rounding Out the Picture: King Oedipus, Sex/Love and Aggression/Death, the Nature of Trauma, and Other Freudian Controversies Could This Story Tell Us Anything About Freud? Sex, Sex, and Sex Sex and Violence Was Freud Sexualized at an Early Age? Sexual Trauma Summary Chapter 3: The Evolution of Psychoanalysis Freud's Drive Theory Ego Object Relations and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis Self Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis The Development of the Emotional Self An Illustration: Daddy Day Care Counseling as a Corrective Affective (and Cognitive) Experience Summary Chapter 4: Multiculturalism "My Parents Were Jews, and I Have Remained a Jew Myself" Social Class: Is Psychoanalysis Just For Rich People? Practical Matters First: Money A Theoretical Concern: Who Has Time for Insight? Theoretical Concern Number Two: Who Has the Necessary Ego Strength? The Relational Response Recent Scholarship: The Free Clinics Psychoanalysis as Failed Feminism Are Men and Women Really Different? Empirical Research to the Rescue Ethics of Rights, Ethics of Care, and Difference Feminism Psychological Adjustment and Societal Change Summary Chapter 5: A Case Illustration of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Counseling Session One: Getting to Know Jennie Sessions Two to Four: The Growth of the Counseling Relationship Sessions Five and Six: The Usual Detours Session Seven: The Big Dream Session Eight: How Should I Respond? Session Nine: The Time is Right Session Ten (and Beyond): On the Journey, Together Summary Chapter 6: Conclusion The Unconscious, Version 2.0 A More Useful Freud The Client Is the Most Important Person in the Room Future Considerations Summary