Originally published in 1988, Effective Psychotherapy: The Silent Dialogue, reissued here with a new foreword by the author’s son, explores various debates within psychotherapy. The book offers a transtheoretical psychotherapy seeking to explain its covert processes – its “silent dialogue” – together with an accompanying operative strategy and set of technical principles. The attempt is made to define the patient’s dis-ease, to describe its etiology, to outline a remedial procedur...