Basics of Psychotherapy

A working foundation for the consulting room.

What psychotherapy is, why it works, and whether it works.

The book to read before any modality. What the word covers, how the named therapies relate to one another, and the healing that happens outside technique altogether: spontaneous remission, the placebo, the alliance, suggestion, the group. Then the variables that shape every case, the boundary with counselling, the common core every therapy shares, and an honest chapter on whether any of it works. Built on Wolberg, restructured for teaching, and corrected where the classic account has been overtaken.