| Introduction | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Ch. 1 | Remove the Obstacles to Growth | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Avoid Diagnosis (Except for Insurance Companies) | 4 |
| Ch. 3 | Therapist and Patient as "Fellow Travelers," | 6 |
| Ch. 4 | Engage the Patient | 11 |
| Ch. 5 | Be Supportive | 13 |
| Ch. 6 | Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's Window | 17 |
| Ch. 7 | Teach Empathy | 23 |
| Ch. 8 | Let the Patient Matter to You | 26 |
| Ch. 9 | Acknowledge Your Errors | 30 |
| Ch. 10 | Create a New Therapy for Each Patient | 33 |
| Ch. 11 | The Therapeutic Act, Not the Therapeutic Word | 37 |
| Ch. 12 | Engage in Personal Therapy | 40 |
| Ch. 13 | The Therapist Has Many Patients; The Patient, One Therapist | 44 |
| Ch. 14 | The Here-and-Now - Use It, Use It, Use It | 46 |
| Ch. 15 | Why Use the Here-and-Now? | 47 |
| Ch. 16 | Using the Here-and-Now - Grow Rabbit Ears | 49 |
| Ch. 17 | Search for Here-and-Now Equivalents | 52 |
| Ch. 18 | Working Through Issues in the Here-and-Now | 58 |
| Ch. 19 | The Here-and-Now Energizes Therapy | 62 |
| Ch. 20 | Use Your Own Feelings as Data | 65 |
| Ch. 21 | Frame Here-and-Now Comments Carefully | 68 |
| Ch. 22 | All Is Grist for the Here-and-Now Mill | 70 |
| Ch. 23 | Check into the Here-and-Now Each Hour | 72 |
| Ch. 24 | What Lies Have You Told Me? | 74 |
| Ch. 25 | Blank Screen? Forget It! Be Real | 75 |
| Ch. 26 | Three Kinds of Therapist Self-Disclosure | 83 |
| Ch. 27 | The Mechanism of Therapy - Be Transparent | 84 |
| Ch. 28 | Revealing Here-and-Now Feelings - Use Discretion | 87 |
| Ch. 29 | Revealing the Therapist's Personal Life - Use Caution | 90 |
| Ch. 30 | Revealing Your Personal Life - Caveats | 94 |
| Ch. 31 | Therapist Transparency and Universality | 97 |
| Ch. 32 | Patients Will Resist Your Disclosure | 99 |
| Ch. 33 | Avoid the Crooked Cure | 102 |
| Ch. 34 | On Taking Patients Further Than You Have Gone | 104 |
| Ch. 35 | On Being Helped by Your Patient | 106 |
| Ch. 36 | Encourage Patient Self-Disclosure | 109 |
| Ch. 37 | Feedback in Psychotherapy | 112 |
| Ch. 38 | Provide Feedback Effectively and Gently | 115 |
| Ch. 39 | Increase Receptiveness to Feedback by Using "Parts," | 119 |
| Ch. 40 | Feedback: Strike When the Iron Is Cold | 121 |
| Ch. 41 | Talk About Death | 124 |
| Ch. 42 | Death and Life Enhancement | 126 |
| Ch. 43 | How to Talk About Death | 129 |
| Ch. 44 | Talk About Life Meaning | 133 |
| Ch. 45 | Freedom | 137 |
| Ch. 46 | Helping Patients Assume Responsibility | 139 |
| Ch. 47 | Never (Almost Never) Make Decisions for the Patient | 142 |
| Ch. 48 | Decisions: A Via Regia into Existential Bedrock | 146 |
| Ch. 49 | Focus on Resistance to Decision | 148 |
| Ch. 50 | Facilitating Awareness by Advice Giving | 150 |
| Ch. 51 | Facilitating Decisions - Other Devices | 155 |
| Ch. 52 | Conduct Therapy as a Continuous Session | 158 |
| Ch. 53 | Take Notes of Each Session | 160 |
| Ch. 54 | Encourage Self-Monitoring | 162 |
| Ch. 55 | When Your Patient Weeps | 164 |
| Ch. 56 | Give Yourself Time Between Patients | 166 |
| Ch. 57 | Express Your Dilemmas Openly | 168 |
| Ch. 58 | Do Home Visits | 171 |
| Ch. 59 | Don't Take Explanation Too Seriously | 174 |
| Ch. 60 | Therapy-Accelerating Devices | 179 |
| Ch. 61 | Therapy as a Dress Rehearsal for Life | 182 |
| Ch. 62 | Use the Initial Complaint as Leverage | 184 |
| Ch. 63 | Don't Be Afraid of Touching Your Patient | 187 |
| Ch. 64 | Never Be Sexual with Patients | 191 |
| Ch. 65 | Look for Anniversary and Life-Stage Issues | 195 |
| Ch. 66 | Never Ignore "Therapy Anxiety," | 197 |
| Ch. 67 | Doctor, Take Away My Anxiety | 200 |
| Ch. 68 | On Being Love's Executioner | 201 |
| Ch. 69 | Taking a History | 206 |
| Ch. 70 | A History of the Patient's Daily Schedule | 208 |
| Ch. 71 | How Is the Patient's Life Peopled? | 210 |
| Ch. 72 | Interview the Significant Other | 211 |
| Ch. 73 | Explore Previous Therapy | 213 |
| Ch. 74 | Sharing the Shade of the Shadow | 215 |
| Ch. 75 | Freud Was Not Always Wrong | 217 |
| Ch. 76 | CBT Is Not What It's Cracked Up to Be ... Or, Don't Be Afraid of the EVT Boogeyman | 222 |
| Ch. 77 | Dreams - Use Them, Use Them, Use Them | 225 |
| Ch. 78 | Full Interpretation of a Dream? Forget It! | 227 |
| Ch. 79 | Use Dreams Pragmatically: Pillage and Loot | 228 |
| Ch. 80 | Master Some Dream Navigational Skills | 235 |
| Ch. 81 | Learn About the Patients's Life from Dreams | 238 |
| Ch. 82 | Pay Attention to the First Dream | 243 |
| Ch. 83 | Attend Carefully to Dreams About the Therapist | 246 |
| Ch. 84 | Beware the Occupational Hazards | 251 |
| Ch. 85 | Cherish the Occupational Privileges | 256 |
| Notes | 261 |
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
