In this book, therapists, clinicians and researchers attempt to answer the question, What are the seemingly intangible variables that enable patients to overcom

In the past decade, the working alliance has emerged as possibly the most important conceptualization of the common elements in diverse therapy modalities. Crea

Many students enter graduate programs with little or no experience of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Efforts to impart clinical skills have often been less than s

The best therapists embody the changes they attempt to facilitate in their patients. In other words, they practice what they preach and are an authentic and eng

Most of the existing psychodynamic literature approaches the treatment process from one particular theoretical perspective or another. Yet, what contemporary ps