Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Tables and Figures -- Preface -- PART I: CHANGE AND PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY -- 1 The Dynamics of Change -- The aim of therapeutic change -- The tasks of psychotherapy -- Change and the process of therapy -- The client's experience -- The therapist's experience -- Conclusion -- 2 Psychodynamics: A Changing Theory -- What does psychodynamic mean? -- Models of the mind -- The dynamic point of view -- The structural point of view -- The developmental point of view -- Disputed theoretical territory -- The nature of motivation -- The roots of psychopathology -- The processes of change -- PART II: PROCESSES OF CHANGE: A FRAMEWORK -- 3 Expression: Releasing the Mind -- Verbalisation, catharsis and confession -- Free association -- The therapeutic situation -- The impact and limitations of expression -- Conclusion -- 4 Understanding: Discovering Meaning -- Insight and unconscious meaning -- Conflict and repetition -- Interpretation -- The construction of meaning -- The value of understanding -- The limits of interpretation -- Conclusion -- 5 Relationship: Rediscovering the Other -- A psychodynamic perspective on the therapeutic relationship -- Transference -- The alliance and the real relationship -- Corrective emotional experience -- Therapeutic neutrality -- The therapist's countertransference -- Countertransference as informative -- Participation in the therapeutic transaction -- The therapist's availability in the transaction -- Technique and the therapeutic transaction -- Processes of change through relationship -- Conclusion -- 6 Regression: Contacting the Unconscious -- The process of regression -- States of mind and levels of development -- Therapeutic regression -- Holding and regression to dependence -- Risk and regression -- The therapist's regression.

Regression in the service of development -- Conclusion -- 7 Differentiation: Working Through Limitation and Loss -- The compulsion to repeat -- Adhesive attachment -- Working through -- Mourning and renunciation -- Loss and the Oedipal situation -- Mentalisation and the third position -- Differentiation -- Differentiation and therapeutic change -- Sustaining disappointment -- Conclusion -- 8 Creation: Constructing New Forms of Experience -- The need to create -- The creative infant -- The creative unconscious -- The creative relational matrix -- Conclusion -- PART III: CONTEXTS AND CONCLUSIONS -- 9 Widening the Context of Change -- The context of practice -- The individual in society -- From individual to group therapy -- Families and organisational systems -- Conclusion -- 10 Constructing the Spiral of Change -- The processes of change -- The spiral of change -- The uniqueness of therapeutic processes -- The place of theory -- Openness to change -- Further Reading -- References -- Index.