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The Double Session: Two for the Price of One or One for the Price of Two?
Author(s) -
Davies Rebecca
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/bjp.12599
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , psychology , context (archaeology) , psychotherapist , applied psychology , computer science , world wide web , paleontology , biology
The double session is evaluated here as a treatment option in a once‐weekly psychodynamic psychotherapy. The double session is defined as two 50‐minute sessions back‐to‐back, a single 100‐minute session. I discuss how the double session came to be chosen and practiced with one particular male client. I discuss previous literature on the use of the double session, elucidating the rationale, clinical thinking, indications and contraindications in these papers. I analyse my own clinical experience and thinking in the use of the double session in the context of the many objections; I attempt to argue positively and reflectively with this seemingly controversial adaptation of well trodden once‐weekly work. I address therapists' resistance to the double session. Using other examples of extended session work I examine how the therapy can be enhanced by its intensity and I argue for further research and use of the double session in an endeavour to deepen and enhance once‐weekly work.