Review of PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence

Reviews the book, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence edited by Raymond A. Levy, J.Stuart Ablon, and Horst Kächele (see record 2012-02457-000). This is a volume of uneven quality, as would be expected in a book of this length and with this many chapters, but it is also a book with many excellent contributions by many leading psychoanalytic researchers. If nothing else, psychoanalytic clinicians will come away from this volume with greater knowledge of the wealth of clinically sensitive research to which they can turn if they want to understand their work in a more rigorous way and to find better ways of helping their patients. But if there are even a handful of nonpsychoanalytic colleagues who read at least parts of the book and become intrigued by them—and if, better yet, some of those nonpsychoanalytic colleagues happen to be graduate students—then there is also a chance that we can widen the psychoanalytic world into something other than the disappearing ghetto that it is slowly becoming. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)