Feelings of love, the wish for extra-therapeutic social contact, and the experience of sexual urges between psychotherapy patients and their therapists have been an endless source of confusion and misconceptions for those involved with emotional healing. This accessible text offers fresh perspectives and principles of technique for how best to handle expressions of love and sexual desire in the course of a therapy experience.

Dr Langs writes I have preseved the workbook format(of a previously published 3-volume set of workbooks)and have tried to select the most cogent clinical vignettes available in the original books to convey the essence of clinical(communicative)listening, formulating, intervening and validating.

This book draws upon analytically oriented settings for almost all our clinical observations. It provides an excellent introduction to the theory and technique of communicative psychoanalysis and links it with the growing field of evolutionary psychoanalysis.

This book presents some uncommon lines of clinical observation and thought that hopefully will shed new light on the work and thinking of the full range of helping professionals. It provides the insights and techniques that characterize the empowered form of psychotherapy.