This guide to the prescriptive selection of psychosocial interventions is founded on a research-based model that sequentially considers patient dimensions, environments, settings, therapists, and therapies. Topics covered include: the development of a prescriptive decision model, and patient predisposing variables.

This collection of case studies and essays presents Freudian and post Freudian psychoanalytic views of how women develop. Laura Arens Fuerstein traces the histories of women who had distant, cold, dominant mothers and who subsequently developed ties to abusive men. Carolyn Celentano examines the lives of women who had suffocating, intrusive mothers. Ronald W.Levin explains how medical treatment can exacerbate psychosomatic symptoms in patients who had troubled interactions with both parents. Kenneth R.King and Theodore L.Dorpat present an account of an analysis of a father-daughter incest...