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Over the last several years, the American Psychological Association has undertaken an important initiative to publish a book on each of the major psychotherapeutic modalities currently in use, that is accessible to a broad audience, and that can serve as a focused resource for those interested in learning more about that field of practice. For each book in the Theories of Psychotherapy Series (edited by Jon Carlson and Matt Englar-Carlson), a master clinician in a given therapeutic modality provides an overview of its history, key concepts and clinical tools, as well as how an understanding of its psychotherapeutic theory can aid in the selection of specific clinical techniques. In addition, each book has companion DVDs that show the author implementing that psychotherapy with a patient. Together, these materials paint a picture of how good theory can inform clinical technique, and how the thoughtful application of clinical technique can help decrease the staggering costs of human suffering.
To provide such a concise overview of the psychoanalytic canon, however, is no easy task; it is an enormously rich and tentacled literature reaching in many different directions. Any attempt to lay claim to a single “true” psychoanalytic perspective while honoring the heterogeneity of the field's theoretical lineages and numerous ways its communities of practitioners translate that theory into