Horst Kachele, Camilla Renlund, Phil Richardson

• Preface -- Foreword -- The German multi-centre eating disorder study on the influence of psychodynamic psychotherapy on personality -- Differential treatment outcome of inpatient psychodynamic group work -- Investigating structural change in the process and outcome of psychoanalytic treatment: The Heidelberg–Berlin Study -- Contribution to the measurement of mode-specific effects in long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- Close family or mere neighbours? Some empirical data on the differences between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy -- Psychoanalytically orientated day-hospital treatment for borderline personality disorder: theory, problems, and practice -- Henderson Hospital democratic therapeutic community: outcome studies and methodological issues