Each chapter of this book corresponds with one out of twenty seminars on psychotherapy held by Professor Moreno at the School for Psychiatric Studies in the University of Bologna in 1972-3. Retaining the scheme he then used, he devotes the first half of the course to exposition and discussion of the theories of contemporary depth psychology and the second to their application to psychopathological conditions.

Moreno meets any hasty charge of eclecticism in the important first chapter, where he sets out the conclusions to which he has come concerning the nature of psychotherapy and its methodological status today. He argues that all psychotherapy, regardless