title: The Technique of Psychotherapy
author:  Lewis R. Wolberg 
description: These revised volumes review the numerous contemporary approaches in the psychotherapeutic disciplines with lively debates that aim to clarify the strengths and shortcomings of each school of thought. The full range of clinical issues, including particular focus on the critical aspects each demanding phase of treatment, is presented. Replete with clinical dialogue, these texts discuss and illustrate every important theoretical concept.
zlib_text: THE TECHNIQUE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
  
  
  
  
  
  FOURTH EDITION
  
  
  
  
  
  LEWIS R. WOLBERG, M.D.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  # Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION](../Text/preface.xhtml)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [PART I. THE SCOPE, TYPES, AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF
  PSYCHOTHERAPY](../Text/Part%20I.xhtml)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [1 WHAT IS PSYCHOTHERAPY?](../Text/ch1.xhtml)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [IS THE MEDICAL MODEL OUTMODED?](../Text/ch1.xhtml#sigil_toc_id_1)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [PSYCHOTHERAPY VERSUS PSYCHOANALYSIS](../Text/ch1.xhtml#sigil_toc_id_2)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [PSYCHOANALYSIS VERSUS PSYCHOANALYTICALLY ORIENTED
  PSYCHOTHERAPY](../Text/ch1.xhtml#sigil_toc_id_3)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [OTHER DEFINITIONS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY](../Text/ch1.xhtml#sigil_toc_id_4)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [2 VARIETIES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY](../Text/ch2.xhtml)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [3 EXTRATHERAPEUTIC (non-specific) HEALING AIDS: I. THE "SPONTANEOUS"
  CURE](../Text/ch3.xhtml)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [4 EXTRATHERAPEUTIC (non-specific) HEALING AIDS: THE "HELPING"
  SITUATION](../Text/ch4.xhtml)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [THE PLACEBO EFFECT](../Text/ch4.xhtml#sigil_toc_id_5)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [THE RELAT