Table of Contents

About the Authors
Introduction to the Concise Guides Series
Preface to the Third Edition
Chapter 1. Why Psychotherapy?
Chapter 2. Basic Principles
Chapter 3. Patient Evaluation, I: Assessment, Diagnosis, and the Prescription of Psychotherapy
Chapter 4. Patient Evaluation, II: Psychodynamic Listening
Chapter 5. Patient Evaluation, III: Psychodynamic Evaluation
Chapter 6. Beginning Treatment
Chapter 7. Resistance and Defense
Chapter 8. Transference
Chapter 9. Countertransference
Chapter 10. Dreams
Chapter 11. Termination
Chapter 12. Practical Problems and Their Management
Chapter 13. Brief Psychotherapy
Chapter 14. Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder and Other Severe Character Pathology
Chapter 15. Supportive Psychotherapy
Appendix: A Brief History of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Glossary
Author Index
Subject Index

About the Author

Robert J. Ursano, M.D., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward H��bert School of Medicine, in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also on the teaching faculty of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute in Washington, D.C. Stephen M. Sonnenberg, M.D., is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward H��bert School of Medicine, in Bethesda, Maryland, and Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, based in Austin, Texas. Susan G. Lazar, M.D., is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward H��bert School of Medicine, in Bethesda, Maryland, and at the George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. She is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

A Concise Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy sounds like an impossible dream. However, the authors have managed to construct a volume of less than 250 small pages that is well written, easy to translate into useful and important clinical activity, and well referenced.