Technique of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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Part 1 Introductory comments: why this book was written - its scope and goals. Part 2 The initial contact with the patient: the office and the setting of treatment; the first contact with the patient; the assessment portion of the first session; the ground rules of psychotherapy - fees and responsibility for the sessions; the ground rules of psychotherapy - additional considerations; comments on the first session. Part 3 Psychoanalytic concepts of psychopathology and psychotherapy. Part 4 Understanding the patient's communications: the framework for understanding the communications from patients in psychotherapy; the specific communications from patients in psychotherapy. Part 5 The therapist's interventions: silence; questions and clarifications; confrontations; interpretations; reconstructions; supportive interventions; basic considerations in intervening.