Understanding Psychotherapy: The Science Behind the Art

Using human, compelling cases that bring the process of psychotherapy alive, a gifted psychiatrist shows what psychotherapy is and how and why it works.

Table of Contents:
* Psychotherapy and Science The Goal of Psychotherapy: Self-Image and the Search for Competence * The Six Phases of Treatment: Al Gertz * The Search for Competence The Developmental Spiral * Restoring Coping Skills: Byron Osgood * Fostering Decision Making: Alice Senoj Thinking about Thinking * Pattern Matching: The Brains Ordering Process * The Feedback cycle and Psychotherapy Affect: The Gateway to Action * Affect as the Motivator of Behavior: Joe Herman, Sr. * Baby Talk: Joe Herman, Jr. * Preventive Psychotherapy: Billy Kruger * The Regulation of Affect in Infancy The Self System * Power of Choice: Early Control of Decision Making * The Self System * The Vicious Circle of Anxiety * Depression * Defense Mechanisms The Heart of Treatment: The Therapist and the Transference * The Affective Bond * The Development of the Transference * The Form of the Transference * The Content of the Transference * Empathic Understanding: Clarence Albright Failure of Affective Bonding and Withdrawal from Attachment * Overcoming Resistance to Treatment: Jim Zurf * Adaptive Withdrawal: Bob Granger * Toward Transmuting Internalization: Jim Zurf A Depressive Retreat from Feelings * The Man God Did Not Want: Roger Flynn Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorders * Disavowal and the Divided Self-Concept * Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Esther Romberg * Tension Intolerance and the Borderline Personality: Tina Pearl Psychoneurosis and Related Character Disorders * Psychosexual Development * The Analysis of a Psychoneurotic Man: O.W. Neubach * Analysis of the Oedipal Conflict in Women: Irma Waller * Psychotherapy of a Case of Hysteria: Norma Newton * Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy * Epilogue

About the Author :
Michael Franz Basch, M.D., is the Cynthia Oudejans Harris, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College in Chicago, the training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is in the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He is the author of Doing Psychotherapy (1980), Understanding Psychotherapy: The Science Behind the Art (1988), and Practicing Psychotherapy: A Casebook (1992). Michael Franz Basch, M.D.,was the Cynthia Oudejans Harris, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College in Chicago, the training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Doing Psychotherapy (1980), Understanding Psychotherapy: The Science Behind the Art (1988), and Practicing Psychotherapy: A Casebook (1992)