Doubts and Certainties in the Practice of Psychotherapy

Klein, Josephine

• Preamble -- Concerning Values -- Imagination and the institutional mind -- Depression, disadvantage, and the creative response -- Concerning Theories and Techniques -- Psychotherapeutics: what makes people better? -- Holding: recognizing, accepting, understanding, containing, organizing, integrating, metabolizing, and other such -- Patients who are not ready for interpretations -- Times when transference interpretations are (in)appropriate -- Using general concepts of structure to understand regression, transference, and the working alliance -- Early attachments and sources of later well-being -- Concerning the Development of Ideas -- Fathers: changes in psychoanalytic ideas on men’s relationship with their children -- The contrasting histories of psychoanalytic thought in the United States and the United Kingdom