Skills Training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Skills Training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy provides concrete exercises and instructions to help therapists and patients develop psychodynamic capacities such as self-observation, mentalization, and identifying contexts that trigger maladaptive patterns.

Busch emphasizes writing, behavioral experiments, and structured skills to complement psychodynamic formulations and accelerate change without sacrificing depth.

The book includes worksheets, examples, and techniques for challenging negative self- and other-representations and for rehearsing alternative interpersonal behaviors.

It is designed to be accessible to clinicians across orientations who wish to incorporate psychodynamic skill-building into time-limited or problem-focused treatments.

The aim is to make psychodynamic insights operational and teachable so patients can practice change between sessions.