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This two volume set is the result of Langs' interest in what he calls the “therapeutic interaction.” Noted for his writings in psychotherapy, Langs in his preface states that in his search for theoretical and clinical material from which he could broaden his investigations into the nature of the therapeutic interaction he discovered that “virtually all the significant literature on the therapeutic relationship derives not of the psychotherapeutic but from investigations of the analytic situation …” Volume I presents over five hundred abstracts from the psychoanalytic literature on this subject, which is essentially transference and countertransference. The abstracts are arranged according to year of publication starting with 1893 and ending in 1976. The authors are presented alphabetically within the year of original publication. The number of entries per year vary, with the years from about 1962 on having the largest number of entries.
Each entry has a brief, three to four sentence description of the main topics to be found in the abstracted article, followed by the actual abstract. The abstracts themselves vary in length, seemingly based on the length of the original. The style, however, remains approximately the same throughout the volume. A sampling of