This volume is the first of three devoted to the Dynamics of Psychotherapy, and is concerned mainly with general psychodynamic principles. Psychotherapy, the author says, is concerned with the whole person and not with isolated behaviour or symptoms, and its aims are reduced to two: the gaining of inner peace and change of behaviour leading to better adaptation.

He stresses that his point of view is eclectic, and in fact gives detailed accounts of the principles involved in all the usual methods of psychotherapy, quoting chapter and verse by all the leading exponents