Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note about Citations -- PART I: PSYCHOTHERAPY: Basic Principles -- 1 Critical Thinking in the Design of Psychotherapy Research -- 2 Life Story as the Focus of Psychotherapy: The Johns Hopkins Conceptual and Didactic Perspectives -- 3 Neural Substrates of Psychotherapy -- 4 Restoring Meaning to Psychiatric Diagnosis and Psychotherapy in the Age of Evolutionary Biology -- 5 Cultural Concepts in Persuasion and Healing -- 6 Deconstructing Demoralization: Subjective Incompetence and Distress in Adversity -- PART II: PSYCHOTHERAPY: Current Practices -- 7 Depression, Demoralization, and Psychotherapy in People Who Are Medically Ill -- 8 Demoralization and Hope in Clinical Psychiatry and Psychotherapy -- 9 Psychotherapeutic Communication in Medical Settings -- 10 Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: From Psychoanalytic Arrogance to Evidence-Based Modesty -- 11 Behavioral and Condition-Specific Approaches to Psychotherapy -- 12 Weighing Evidence for Common and Specific Factors in Psychotherapy with Children -- 13 Contemporary Realities of Group Psychotherapy -- 14 Cultural Dynamics in Psychotherapy and Cultural Psychotherapies: Ingredients, Processes, and Outcomes -- 15 Psychotherapy, Religion, and Spirituality -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.