Psychotherapy

Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., is the Eugene Meyer III Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of Psychiatric Dimensions of Medical Practice, coeditor of The Primary Care Physician's Guide to Common Psychiatric and Neurologic Problems, and coauthor of The Perspectives of Psychiatry, all available from Johns Hopkins.

• Foreword, by Jerome L. Kroll, M.D.Preface and Acknowledgments1. Life-Story Reasoning2. Personality: The Patient's and Yours3. The Psychotherapeutic Relationship4. Psychotherapy SupervisionEpilogueReferencesIndex

Written in an engaging, informal style, and is replete with the sorts of examples that can only come from an extended period of experience. -- Tony O'Brien Mental Health Net 2005 A helpful book and one that has a place as a first volume for residents beginning to practise psychotherapy. -- Laura Stovel Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2006 The writing style is easy and conversational... will appeal to students for its ability to address their fears and to instructors and supervisors, because it contains a number of conversations worth having with students of psychotherapy. -- Caroline Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. Psychiatric Services 2006