Main description:

*Little competition: one of only a few brief, reader-friendly books for novices on psychodynamic treatment.
*The author is a well-known therapist and psychoanalyst.
*Replete with candid case material that includes mistakes the author made and how she handled them.
*Features an annotated bibliography and a glossary of key terms.

Contents:

Introduction
1. Emotional Engagement and Mutual Influence: Basic Issues as Therapy Begins
2. Mutuality and Collaboration: Influencing Each Other
3. Redefining Regression: Facilitating Therapeutic Vulnerability
4. Evaluating Interventions: Tracking the Client's Response
5. Self-Disclosure and Advice: Understanding How and When the Therapist's Disclosures Are Therapeutic
6. Managing Emotion: Affective Communication and the Role of Interaction
7. The Special Problem of Affect Management in Treating Borderline Personality Disorders
8. Confrontation and Countertransference Anger: Overcoming the Therapist's Aversion to Conflict
9. Erotic Feelings: How They Help or Hinder the Therapeutic Process
10. Empowering the Client: The Road to Independence
Conclusion
Glossary