Empowered Psychotherapy

Robert Langs, M.D., is well known as the author of many books on the subject of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, including 'The Technique of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy' (2 volumes), 'Psychotherapy: A Basic Text' , 'A Primer of Psychotherapy ' and 'Decoding Your Dreams'. He is currently Executive Director at the Program for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Beth Israel Medical Center, New York; Clinical Professor with the Department of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine, New York; and Visiting Clinical Investigator at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York.

• Foreword -- Introduction -- Background Perspectives -- The goals of self-processing therapy -- The evolution to self-processing -- Communication: Listening and Formulating -- The surface message -- The implications of manifest contents -- Symbols and isolated encoded meanings -- Trigger decoding -- The Techniques of Self-Processing -- The Modes of Self-Processing Therapy -- The frame of the self-processing class -- Initiating the self-processing class -- The first class -- The focus on resistances -- The origination narrative -- Guided associations -- Self-indicators and triggers -- Linking triggers to themes -- The self-processing tutorial and personal self-processing