Two Modes of Psychotherapy and Counselling

Abstract

This book is addressed to all manner of students and practitioners of psychotherapy and counselling. It offers a compendium of deep psychological and interpersonal insights and precepts that can serve as a solid foundation for all of the diverse efforts at emotional healing that are in vogue today. While its bias is psychodynamic, the knowledge and principles of technique that will be espoused have a bearing on, and can serve to illuminate, the practice of all present-day treatment modalities regardless of their theoretical underpinnings.

For ease of presentation, I shall hereafter use the terms ‘psychotherapy’ and ‘therapy’ to allude to all forms of mental healing, much as I shall use the terms ‘psychotherapist’ and ‘therapist’ to refer to all types of mental health professionals. Similarly, the term ‘patient’ shall imply all types of recipients of psychological treatment.