Jane Tyan trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the early 1990s. She is the founder and director of Confer, an independent organisation that provides cutting-edge continuing professional development for psychotherapists and medical doctors. It also aims to provide a non-partisan space for the exchange of views between approaches.

• Introduction , The fifteen key ingredients of good psychotherapy , Relational perspectives on the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis , The questions we have to ask (ourselves) before we answer the question: How does psychotherapy work? , The psychotherapy relationship , Rhythm, reorientation, reversal: deep reorganization of the self in psychotherapy , When thought is not enough , Primal psychotherapy , Containment: the technical and the tacit in successful psychotherapy , The value of attachment theory in understanding how psychotherapy works , The big picture , Is the psychotherapist's authenticity a crucial key to therapeutic change?*

'There is no more important question in psychotherapy than this one. Jane Ryan and her eleven contributors deserve the highest praise, first for taking on this topic and, second, for succeeding admirably. Psychotherapy does work. People who want to find out how should read this book. And people who think they already know how it works could find a lot here that is new and valuable. The book also gives an excellent sense of what it is like to be in a psychotherapy relationship.'- Dr Morton Schatzman, American psychiatrist, UK-based psychotherapist

Jane Tyan trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the early 1990s. She is the founder and director of Confer, an independent organisation that provides cutting-edge continuing professional development for psychotherapists and medical doctors. It also aims to provide a non-partisan space for the exchange of views between approaches.

• Introduction , The fifteen key ingredients of good psychotherapy , Relational perspectives on the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis , The questions we have to ask (ourselves) before we answer the question: How does psychotherapy work? , The psychotherapy relationship , Rhythm, reorientation, reversal: deep reorganization of the self in psychotherapy , When thought is not enough , Primal psychotherapy , Containment: the technical and the tacit in successful psychotherapy , The value of attachment theory in understanding how psychotherapy works , The big picture , Is the psychotherapist's authenticity a crucial key to therapeutic change?*

'There is no more important question in psychotherapy than this one. Jane Ryan and her eleven contributors deserve the highest praise, first for taking on this topic and, second, for succeeding admirably. Psychotherapy does work. People who want to find out how should read this book. And people who think they already know how it works could find a lot here that is new and valuable. The book also gives an excellent sense of what it is like to be in a psychotherapy relationship.'- Dr Morton Schatzman, American psychiatrist, UK-based psychotherapist

Jane Tyan trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the early 1990s. She is the founder and director of Confer, an independent organisation that provides cutting-edge continuing professional development for psychotherapists and medical doctors. It also aims to provide a non-partisan space for the exchange of views between approaches.

• Introduction , The fifteen key ingredients of good psychotherapy , Relational perspectives on the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis , The questions we have to ask (ourselves) before we answer the question: How does psychotherapy work? , The psychotherapy relationship , Rhythm, reorientation, reversal: deep reorganization of the self in psychotherapy , When thought is not enough , Primal psychotherapy , Containment: the technical and the tacit in successful psychotherapy , The value of attachment theory in understanding how psychotherapy works , The big picture , Is the psychotherapist's authenticity a crucial key to therapeutic change?*

'There is no more important question in psychotherapy than this one. Jane Ryan and her eleven contributors deserve the highest praise, first for taking on this topic and, second, for succeeding admirably. Psychotherapy does work. People who want to find out how should read this book. And people who think they already know how it works could find a lot here that is new and valuable. The book also gives an excellent sense of what it is like to be in a psychotherapy relationship.'- Dr Morton Schatzman, American psychiatrist, UK-based psychotherapist