Emanuel F. Hammer

This book focuses on communication in psychotherapy and how to shape it to reach the patient's affect more effectively. It explores the styles of intervention, as well as the how and why and when psychotherapists might employ more artful interventions to help patients find access to their feelings.

A collection of articles - all by practising psychotherapists - which presents a kaleidoscopic view of the place of interpretation in their own work. The standpoints of the contributors range from strict Freudianism to client-centred work, and from behaviourism to full eclecticism.