Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics

This revised second edition offers a description of the technique of dynamic psychotherapy and deals and both its theory and practice. Practical applications using different techniques are presented for a range of situations from the straightforward to handling dangerous patients. New material in this edition includes: the mother in the male Oedipus complex; masochism, disturbances in the relation with siblings; the "compulsion to repeat"; further follow-up on patients discussed in the first edition.