How to Practice Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method

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HOWARD E. BOOK, M.D., D.PSYCH.: How to Practice Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 1997, 181 pp., $39.95, ISBN 1-55798-46-54.

Dr. Book is psychoanalytically oriented. Seeing the increasing demands for psychotherapy from clients and for cost containment from third-party payers, he turned to investigating the brief psychodynamic psychotherapies and adopted the wellknown time-limited approach developed by Luborsky, identified as "The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method," that seems to bring not only symptom relief but some significant characterological change as well. This work by …