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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Remove the Obstacles to Growth | |
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| Avoid Diagnosis (Except for Insurance Companies) | |
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| Therapist and Patient as "Fellow Travelers" | |
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| Engage the Patient | |
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| Be Supportive | |
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| Empathy: Looking Out the Patient's Window | |
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| Teach Empathy | |
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| Let the Patient Matter to You | |
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| Acknowledge Your Errors | |
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| Create a New Therapy for Each Patient | |
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| The Therapeutic Act, Not the Therapeutic Word | |
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| Engage in Personal Therapy | |
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| The Therapist Has Many Patients; The Patient, One Therapist | |
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| The Here-and-Now--Use It, Use It, Use It | |
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| Why Use the Here-and-Now? | |
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| Using the Here-and-Now--Grow Rabbit Ears | |
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| Search for Here-and-Now Equivalents | |
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| Working Through Issues in the Here-and-Now | |
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| The Here-and-Now Energizes Therapy | |
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| Use Your Own Feelings as Data | |
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| Frame Here-and-Now Comments Carefully | |
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| All Is Grist for the Here-and-Now Mill | |
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| Check into the Here-and-Now Each Hour | |
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| What Lies Have You Told Me? | |
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| Blank Screen? Forget It! Be Real | |
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| Three Kinds of Therapist Self-Disclosure | |
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| The Mechanism of Therapy--Be Transparent | |
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| Revealing Here-and-Now Feelings--Use Discretion | |
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| Revealing the Therapist's Personal Life--Use Caution | |
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| Revealing Your Personal Life--Caveats | |
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| Therapist Transparency and Universality | |
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| Patients Will Resist Your Disclosure | |
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| Avoid the Crooked Cure | |
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| On Taking Patients Further Than You Have Gone | |
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| On Being Helped by Your Patient | |
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| Encourage Patient Self-Disclosure | |
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| Feedback in Psychotherapy | |
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| Provide Feedback Effectively and Gently | |
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| Increase Receptiveness to Feedback by Using "Parts" | |
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| Feedback: Strike When the Iron Is Cold | |
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| Talk About Death | |
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| Death and Life Enhancement | |
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| How to Talk About Death | |
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| Talk About Life Meaning | |
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| Freedom | |
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| Helping Patients Assume Responsibility | |
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| Never (Almost Never) Make Decisions for the Patient | |
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| Decisions: A Via Regia into Existential Bedrock | |
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| Focus on Resistance to Decision | |
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| Facilitating Awareness by Advice Giving | |
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| Facilitating Decisions--Other Devices | |
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| Conduct Therapy as a Continuous Session | |
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| Take Notes of Each Session | |
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| Encourage Self-Monitoring | |
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| When Your Patient Weeps | |
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| Give Yourself Time Between Patients | |
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| Express Your Dilemmas Openly | |
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| Do Home Visits | |
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| Don't Take Explanation Too Seriously | |
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| Therapy-Accelerating Devices | |
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| Therapy as a Dress Rehearsal for Life | |
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| Use the Initial Complaint as Leverage | |
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| Don't Be Afraid of Touching Your Patient | |
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| Never Be Sexual with Patients | |
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| Look for Anniversary and Life-Stage Issues | |
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| Never Ignore "Therapy Anxiety" | |
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| Doctor, Take Away My Anxiety | |
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| On Being Love's Executioner | |
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| Taking a History | |
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| A History of the Patient's Daily Schedule | |
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| How Is the Patient's Life Peopled? | |
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| Interview the Significant Other | |
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| Explore Previous Therapy | |
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| Sharing the Shade of the Shadow | |
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| Freud Was Not Always Wrong | |
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| CBT Is Not What It's Cracked Up to Be ... Or, Don't Be Afraid of the EVT Boogeyman | |
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| Dreams--Use Them, Use Them, Use Them | |
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| Full Interpretation of a Dream? Forget It! | |
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| Use Dreams Pragmatically: Pillage and Loot | |
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| Master Some Dream Navigational Skills | |
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| Learn About the Patient's Life from Dreams | |
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| Pay Attention to the First Dream | |
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| Attend Carefully to Dreams About the Therapist | |
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| Beware the Occupational Hazards | |
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| Cherish the Occupational Privileges | |
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| Notes | |