Main description:

The world has long awaited compelling and unmistakable evidence for the validity of dynamic psychotherapy. A review in the present book shows that such evidence has been accumulating over the past ten years. It comes from clinical trials, process research, case studies, and objective physiological measurements concerned with the importance of ex

Contents:

Overture, Technique, Literature -- Overture -- Introduction to the theory and technique of Davanloo's ISTDP -- The literature: empirical support for Davanloo's ISTDP -- Exposition: Four Detailed Therapies -- The Man Divided -- The Cold-Blooded Businessman -- The Good Girl with Ulcerative Colitis -- The Woman with Dissociation -- General Discussion -- The relation between predictions and actual events -- Aspects of initial evaluation -- Aspects of therapy -- Aspects of outcome -- Recapitulation and Coda -- The present work, traditional dynamic psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis -- Conclusions -- Coda -- Epilogue