Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation

This book brings together a global community of mental health professionals to offer an impassioned defence of relationship-based depth psychotherapy.

Introduction 1. Psychothearpy Action Network: Seeing Beyond the Crossroads Section I: The Social, Political, and Economic Context 2. CBF: Cognitive Behavioural Fallacies 3. The Cost-Effectiveness of Dynamic Psychotherapy: The Obstacles, The Law and a Landmark Lawsuit 4. In Name Only? Mental Health Parity or Illusory Reform 5. The Exclusion of Psychoanalysis in Academic and Orgaznied U.S. Psychology: On Voodooism, Witch-Hunts and the Legion of Followers 6. The Psycho-Politics of Evidence Based Practice and the Assault on Our Mental Health and Mental Health Care Section II: Therapies of Depth, Insight, and Relationship 7. Relational Healing in Psychotherapy: Reaching Beyond the Research 8. Two Perspectives of Mental Distress 9. Diagnosis and Its Discontents: Reflections on Our Current Dilemma 10. Toward a Science of the Heart: Romanticism and the Revival of Psychology Section III: Implications and Future Actions 11. Going Beneath the Surface: What People Want From Therapy 12. Mirror And Window: What Each Reveals 13. Psychoanalytic Applications in a Diverse Society 14. The Rights of Children 15. Long-term Treatment in the Rearview Mirror Epilogue: Stepping Towards the Future: PsiAN's Vision