This book explores the growth of complementary medicine and its increa sing use by the medical profession. It also examines the appeal of com plementary medicine, its safety and efficacy and the direction that re search into this fascinating topic might take in years to come.

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...