Main description:

This book helps the patient of psychotherapeutic intervention to stay with the therapy beyond both the initial satisfactions and the initial frustrations that the process entails. It serves as a guide for patients of psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Contents:

Introduction -- Resisting therapy; or every reason in the world not to go into therapy -- The dynamic unconscious and the resistance to therapy: a mini-introduction to Freud's theory of mind -- Accepting the gift of therapy: resistance revisited -- The dynamic unconscious speaks -- Speaking your own mind; or why words matter -- Transference; or the performance of your life, Part I The clinical experience of psychotherapy: what it feels like, how it works -- Transference; or the performance of your life, Part II -- The listening cure: the therapist speaks at last -- Neurobiology and the "value" of the talking cure -- The psychotherapeutic couple: where we are after therapy; an afterword