This well-respected guide to psychoanalytic psychotherapy addresses key issues for both beginning and practicing therapists, from the rhythm of the initial, middle, and final stages of therapy to the setting up of an office and the handling of fees and insurance. The book also deals with the management of borderline and potentially suicidal or homocidal patients in an out-patient setting. Unique in their direct approach to problems in a therapist's own life, the authors also discuss transference and contertransference issues that arise with pregnancy, changes in the therapist's love attachments, age, illness and a death in the practitioner's family. New in this second edition is a chapter on women therapists and women patients. Contents: Foreword by Roy Schafer, Ph.D. Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition 1. A Way of Thinking about Psychotherapy 2. People Becoming Psychotherapists 3. Getting Started 4. Evaluating the Patient 5. Tuning in to the Patient in Early Psychotherapy 6. Working with the Therapeutic Relationship 7. The Therapist's Feelings about the Patient with Henry Grunebaum, M.D. 8. Thinking about Money 9. Administrative Aspects of Therapy 10. Ending Therapy 11. When There is Little Time 12. Deciding about the Suicidal Outpatient 13. Considering the Homicide Threat 14. Relating to the Borderline Psychotic Patient 15. The Therapist's Love Attachments 16. Some Aspects of the Therapist's Age with Iza S. Erlich, M.A., M.S.W. 17. The Pregnant Therapist 18. The Therapist's Illness 19. A Death in the Therapist's Family 20. Women Therapists and Women Patients 21. Supervision Suggested Reading Index |