COVER -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Time in our times and time in psychotherapy -- Conceptualization of time and sense of time -- How does the sense of time develop? -- Time in childhood -- Duration -- Cultural relativity of time -- Time's arrow and time's cycle -- Western culture under the terror of time's arrow -- Time in psychotherapy: prejudices against brief dynamic psychotherapy -- A history of resistance to shortening psychoanalysis -- The selfsabotage of analytic psychotherapies -- Time as the principal lengthening factor: a hypothesis -- Rationale for shortening analytic therapies. -- Chapter 2. Brief dynamic psychotherapy -- What makes a therapy psychoanalytic? -- Boundaries and therapeutic space -- Transference -- What makes a dynamic (or psychoanalytic) psychotherapy brief (or short-term)? -- Terminology -- Comparison of "long" and "brief" dynamic psychotherapy -- The importance of the beginning -- Transference needs no time -- The relentless healer -- The therapist's attitude. -- Chapter 3. Destructive anger, healing anger, and the impulse to separate -- Overview -- What is destructive anger? -- A hidden manifestation of destructive anger: acting out -- Destructive idealization as a form of acting out -- An overt manifestation of destructive anger: universal rage -- Origin of destructive anger and destructive idealization -- Splitting of feelings and the failure to separate -- Healing anger -- Breaking through the "wall": healing anger and the impulse to separate. -- Chapter 4. Final, intermediate, and Immediate aims of brief and other analytic therapies -- The therapist's neutrality -- Perfection: neurotic goal or guiding ideal -- The question of aims: avoidance or terminological uncertainty.

Negative goals Inherited from medicine or jargon -- The aims of the patient and third parties -- An attempt at formulating aims -- Immediate alms and setting the therapeutic framework -- Intermediate aims and therapeutic technique -- Final alms: their closeness to religious and cultural Ideals -- A final aim for brief dynamic psychotherapy. -- REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.