Jerome Blackman presents a better way to make more accurate diagnosis - including the hows and whys (if known) of mental disturbance. He assesses whether deficits or conflicts are causing what a clinician observes, and then formulates what may be causing them.

Therapists inevitably feel more gratified in their work when their cases have better treatment outcomes. This book is designed to help them achieve that by providing practical solutions to problems that arise in psychotherapy, such as: Do depressed people need an antidepressant, or psychotherapy alone? How do you handle people who want to be your friend, who touch you, who won't leave your office, or who break boundaries? How do you prevent people from quitting treatment prematurely? Suppose you don't like the person who consults you? What if people you treat with CBT don't do their homework?...