Concise guide to PSYCHODYNAMIC psychotherapy. Principles and techniques in the era of managed care.

Robert J. Ursano, M.D.
Stephen M. Sonnenberg, M.D.
Susan G. Lazar, M.D.

second edition, American Psychiatric Press Inc.

CONTENTS

* Introduction
* Preface
* Why psychotherapy?
* Basic principles
* Patient evaluation I: Assessment, diagnosis, and prescription of psychotherapy
* Patient evaluation II: psychodynamic listening
* Patient evaluation III: psychodynamic evaluation
* Beginning treatment
* Resistance and defence
* Transference
* Countertransference
* Dreams
* Termination
* Practical problems and their management
* Brief psychotherapy
* Psychotherapy of borderline personality and other severe character pathology
* Supportive psychotherapy
* Appendix
* Glossary
* Index