Jo Klein presents a picture of herself at work. A sense of vocation, backed up by years of experience, permeates not only the content of this book, but also its language, which is vivid, personal, and deeply in touch with the inner selves of both her patients and herself.

The first title in the 'Practice of Psychotherapy Series' that explores the limits of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Each of the five chapters in this book takes up an aspect of this challenge. In an open and enquiring manner, the authors invite readers to share in their thinking as they describe how they use their psychoanalytic skills to understand the nature of particular challenges.

The third volume in the Practice of Psychotherap series, -Elusive Elements in Practice, - brings together a collection of papers examining the ideas and theories more commonly regarded as off-centre, or indeed elusive, in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The papers in this volume concentrate on the religious and spiritual dimensions of the therapeutic encounter, the -aesthetic experience-, creativity, and mysticism. These -moments of relatedness-, or meetings of minds, are discussed and examined with the help of clinical examples.
This is an innovative collection that demonstrates that the...