Chapter 1 Remove the Obstacles to Growth 1 --
Chapter 2 Avoid Diagnosis (Except for Insurance Companies) 4 --
Chapter 3 Therapist and Patient as "Fellow Travelers" 6 --
Chapter 4 Engage the Patient 11 --
Chapter 5 Be Supportive 13 --
Chapter 6 Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's Window 17 --
Chapter 7 Teach Empathy 23 --
Chapter 8 Let the Patient Matter to You 26 --
Chapter 9 Acknowledge Your Errors 30 --
Chapter 10 Create a New Therapy for Each Patient 33 --
Chapter 11 Therapeutic Act, Not the Therapeutic Word 37 --
Chapter 12 Engage in Personal Therapy 40 --
Chapter 13 Therapist Has Many Patients; The Patient, One Therapist 44 --
Chapter 15 Why Use the Here-and-Now? 47 --
Chapter 16 Using the Here-and-Now
Chapter 17 Search for Here-and-Now Equivalents 52 --
Chapter 18 Working Through Issues in the Here-and-Now 58 --
Chapter 19 Here-and-Now Energizes Therapy 62 --
Chapter 20 Use Your Own Feelings as Data 65 --
Chapter 21 Frame Here-and-Now Comments Carefully 68 --
Chapter 22 All Is Grist for the Here-and-Now Mill 70 --
Chapter 23 Check into the Here-and-Now Each Hour 72 --
Chapter 24 What Lies Have You Told Me? 74 --
Chapter 25 Blank Screen? Forget It! Be Real 75 --
Chapter 26 Three Kinds of Therapist Self-Disclosure 83 --
Chapter 27 Mechanism of Therapy
Chapter 28 Revealing Here-and-Now Feelings
Chapter 29 Revealing the Therapist's Personal Life
Chapter 30 Revealing Your Personal Life
Chapter 31 Therapist Transparency and Universality 97 --
Chapter 32 Patients Will Resist Your Disclosure 99 --
Chapter 33 Avoid the Crooked Cure 102 --
Chapter 34 On Taking Patients Further Than You Have Gone 104 --
Chapter 35 On Being Helped by Your Patient 106 --
Chapter 36 Encourage Patient Self-Disclosure 109 --
Chapter 37 Feedback in Psychotherapy 112 --
Chapter 38 Provide Feedback Effectively and Gently 115 --
Chapter 39 Increase Receptiveness to Feedback by Using "Parts" 119 --
Chapter 40 Feedback: Strike When the Iron Is Cold 121 --
Chapter 41 Talk About Death 124 --
Chapter 42 Death and Life Enhancement 126 --
Chapter 43 How to Talk About Death 129 --
Chapter 44 Talk About Life Meaning 133 --
Chapter 45 Freedom 137 --
Chapter 46 Helping Patients Assume Responsibility 139 --
Chapter 47 Never (Almost Never) Make Decisions for the Patient 142 --
Chapter 48 Decisions: A Via Regia into Existential Bedrock 146 --
Chapter 49 Focus on Resistance to Decision 148 --
Chapter 50 Facilitating Awareness by Advice Giving 150 --
Chapter 51 Facilitating Decisions
Chapter 52 Conduct Therapy as a Continuous Session 158 --
Chapter 53 Take Notes of Each Session 160 --
Chapter 54 Encourage Self-Monitoring 162 --
Chapter 55 When Your Patient Weeps 164 --
Chapter 56 Give Yourself Time Between Patients 166 --
Chapter 57 Express Your Dilemmas Openly 168 --
Chapter 58 Do Home Visits 171 --
Chapter 59 Don't Take Explanation Too Seriously 174 --
Chapter 60 Therapy-Accelerating Devices 179 --
Chapter 61 Therapy as a Dress Rehearsal for Life 182 --
Chapter 62 Use the Initial Complaint as Leverage 184 --
Chapter 63 Don't Be Afraid of Touching Your Patient 187 --
Chapter 64 Never Be Sexual with Patients 191 --
Chapter 65 Look for Anniversary and Life-Stage Issues 195 --
Chapter 66 Never Ignore "Therapy Anxiety" 197 --
Chapter 67 Doctor, Take Away My Anxiety 200 --
Chapter 68 On Being Love's Executioner 201 --
Chapter 69 Taking a History 206 --
Chapter 70 A History of the Patient's Daily Schedule 208 --
Chapter 71 How Is the Patient's Life Peopled? 210 --
Chapter 72 Interview the Significant Other 211 --
Chapter 73 Explore Previous Therapy 213 --
Chapter 74 Sharing the Shade of the Shadow 215 --
Chapter 75 Freud Was Not Always Wrong 217 --
Chapter 76 CBT Is Not What It's Cracked Up to Be ... Or, Don't Be Afraid of the EVT Boogeyman 222 --
Use Them, Use Them, Use Them
Chapter 78 Full Interpretation of a Dream? Forget It! 227 --
Chapter 79 Use Dreams Pragmatically: Pillage and Loot 228 --
Chapter 80 Master Some Dream Navigational Skills 235 --
Chapter 81 Learn About the Patient's Life from Dreams 238 --
Chapter 82 Pay Attention to the First Dream 243 --
Chapter 83 Attend Carefully to Dreams About the Therapist 246 --
Chapter 84 Beware the Occupational Hazards 251 --
Chapter 85 Cherish the Occupational Privileges 256.
