This work is an orientation to a craft of great richness and interest. The authors describe the defining elements of the accumulated working knowledge of psychodynamic psychotherapy. It revisits the raw pointedness of old questions: What is psychotherapy? What makes it meaningful? What do I say when a patient asks me how therapy works? How long will it take? How does change happen?

By Angelica Kaner and Ernst Prelinger

Chapter 1 Individual Psychological Work
Chapter 2 Impediments to Individual Psychological Work
Chapter 3 Adaptation
Chapter 4 Psychodynamics
Chapter 5 Character
Chapter 6 The Therapist: Her Personal Experiences and Qualities
Chapter 7 Wobbly and Brittle
Chapter 8 Early Learning
Chapter 9 Later Learrning
Chapter 10 The Frame
Chapter 11 Setting up a Practice
Chapter 12 The Patient
Chapter 13 First Encounters
Chapter 14 The Therapeutic Match
Chapter 15 The Therapeutic Understanding
Chapter 16 The First Therapy Session: Setting a Tone
Chapter 17 The First and Only Hour
Chapter 18 The Initial Version
Chapter 19 The Therapeutic Formulation and Agenda
Chapter 20 Widening the Conversation
Chapter 21 Resistance and Anxiety
Chapter 22 A Frequent Clinical Situation
Chapter 23 Transference
Chapter 24 Countertransference
Chapter 25 Clinical Neutrality
Chapter 26 The Therapeutic Alliance
Chapter 27 What Does the Therapist Actually Do?
Chapter 28 Listening
Chapter 29 Beginning and Ending Sessions
Chapter 30 Making Comments
Chapter 31 Being Silent
Chapter 32 Interpretations
Chapter 33 Working Through
Chapter 34 Termination
Chapter 35 Active Elements in Productive Psychotherapeutic Work