This volume is the seventh in the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Series. One of the aims of this series is to promote the pan-European community of psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Accordingly, the contributors for this book come from different cultures but are united in their view on the importance of empirical research in psychotherapy. The chapters examine issues as varied as the treatment of eating disorders with psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the differences between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, treatment outcomes of group psychotherapy, and the treatment of...

-The EFPP monograph series has established itself as an important source of high- quality psychoanalytic psychotherapy papers. This volume adds to its growing reputation with a group of papers that deals with the analytic relationship from several perspectives, in particular the influence of the analyst/therapist on the evolution of the therapeutic process. This is, of course, a fundamental issue and one that is hotly debated within the analytic community.- -- Paul Williams from the Foreword

Dimitris Anastasopoulos and Evangelos Papanicolaou have gathered together a distinguished...