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In this book, written explicitly for beginning psychotherapists, the authors state their intention to 'present certain concepts, principally psychoanalytic ones, that we consider to be basic to the comprehension of the process involved in all psychotherapeutic endeavors, not just psychoanalytic therapy'. With such an orientation, the most challenging question becomes the selection of what material is appropriately included and how much theoretical and clinical background one can assume the beginner to have. Another difficulty is to avoid too heavy reliance on the technique of formal psychoanalysis as the therapeutic model for the beginning psychiatrist. From these points of view, the book is distinctly uneven in reaching its avowed goals.
In the first chapter the authors present a panoramic view of the different forms of psychotherapy, and their intention to consider the various forms of therapeutic intervention from the standpoint of psychoanalytic theory and principles. However, throughout much of the rest of the book, they lean heavily on the model of