The Art of Psychotherapy: Edition 4
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Storr (1920â2001) and Holmes, both medical psychoanalytic psychotherapists, are âeldersâ in the world of psychotherapy. Their eclectic, experienced and cultured voices offer students and psychotherapy practitioners clinical wisdom hard to find elsewhere. Their book expounds in a very practical way the issues entailed in setting up and maintaining a psychotherapeutic relationship and practice: how to introduce oneself, arrange oneâs consulting room, establish a contract, when and how to make âinterpretations'. The second half of the book deals with more general and often problematic issues, including how to align therapy in the light of diagnosis, working with âdifficultâ patients, therapy termination, and the life course of a therapist, ending with a valedictory overview. In this fourth edition, Holmes has added a chapter on the scientific validation of psychotherapy, sections on tele- and e-therapy, non-binary gender and sexual identities and the impact of race and class on the therapeutic relationship.
This engaging, accessible and profound book is essential reading for psychotherapists, counsellors, psychiatrists and mental health practitioners in training or practice.
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Jeremy Holmes, MD, FRCPsych, is an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. His books include John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (2014), Attachment in Therapeutic Practice (2017) and The Brain has a Mind of its Own (2020). Gardening, Green politics and grand-parenting now parallel his lifelong devotion to psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice and attachment theory.
Anthony Storr, MD, FRCPsych, (1920â2001), was an eminent analytical psychologist, psychiatrist, author and broadcaster. After analytic practice in London, he became Oxfordâs first NHS Medical Psychotherapist. In a rare combination, he held Fellowships of Oxfordâs Green College, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal Society of Literature.
