Dr Poul Rohleder Publishes Definitive Guide

A Clinical Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy by Deborah Abrahams and Poul
QAS psychotherapist Dr Poul Rohleder published this book in 2021 with his colleague Deborah Abrahams. The book serves as an accessible and applied introduction to psychodynamic psychotherapy, giving helpful and practical guidelines around a range of patient presentations and clinical dilemmas. It focuses on contemporary issues facing psychodynamic psychotherapy practice, including issues around research, neuroscience, mentalising, working with diversity and difference, brief psychotherapy adaptations and the use of social media and technology. The book includes a foreword by Prof. Peter Fonagy that outlines the unique features of psychodynamic psychotherapy that make it still so relevant to clinical practice today.　

Praise for A Clinical Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
“This is a scholarly textbook giving a comprehensive and detailed view of the field of psychotherapy based on psychodynamic principles, addressing history, concepts and their divergences; it plunges into the many conflicting research studies comparing psychodynamic psychotherapy with other, often more popular therapies. It presents interestingly the debate between following protocols versus developing competences. The fundamental principles and indeed competences necessary for clinical practice are carefully laid out with their rationale. And a useful final section details difficulties, complexities and adaptations. The promise is of a teaching and reference work on a thoroughly established and well-thought-through professional practice – a promise it keeps, handsomely. As a study guide for students and for practitioners, it deserves to have pride-of-place in the libraries of the most experienced practitioners.” Professor R.D. Hinshelwood, Psychoanalyst, and Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex