This book deals with the link between the purpose of therapy and the boundaries of the therapeutic situation, which - the author argues - derive from the omnipresence of the anxiety surrounding separations and death. The theoretical framework of this book is part of a developmental line from Freud, Klein and Winnicott to Langs, via Sartre and Buber.

Holmes, Carol

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Ground rules -- Communication and the therapeutic process -- The limits of therapy and existential conflicts -- Anxiety and the therapeutic process -- A sense of the absurd: contradictions and paradoxes -- Boundary issues in alternative therapeutic settings -- Conclusion