Storr-s The Art of Psychotherapy first appeared in 1979 and became an instant classic. After Storr-s death, a third edition was rewritten and revised by Jeremy Holmes, and this fourth edition is a further up-to-date iteration.
Storr (1920-2001) and Holmes, both medical psychoanalytic psychotherapists, are -elders- in the world of psychotherapy. Their eclectic, experienced and cultured voices offer students and psychotherapy practitioners clinical wisdom hard to find elsewhere. Their book expounds in a very practical way the issues entailed in setting up and maintaining a psychotherapeutic relationship and practice: how to introduce oneself, arrange one-s consulting room, establish a contract, when and how to make -interpretations''. The second half of the book deals with more general and often problematic issues, including how to align therapy in the light of diagnosis, working with -difficult- patients, therapy termination, and the life course of a therapist, ending wi
