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Within the realm of applied psychoanalysis, the development and evaluation of psychotherapy has received a great deal of attention and energy. This effort is beginning to repay its debt to psychoanalysis in a new way—by increasing our knowledge of the mechanisms of therapeutic action. Through the study of specific psychotherapies, we have taken another look at our ideas about therapeutic process, interpretation, relationship, influence, and corrective experience; and we are beginning to apply new hypotheses to the more general study of the psychoanalytic process. Peter Sifneos, an eminent clinician, teacher, and researcher, has worked for more than thirty years in the field of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy and has developed a specific mode of brief psychotherapy (short-term anxiety-provoking psychotherapy, or STAPP), which he believes to be highly efficacious and whose outcomes he has studied systematically in earlier works.1
He wrote this, his third book on the subject, to provide therapists who wanted to learn his techniques with a training handbook. It is