1.Principles and Goals 1.1 The Wish-Defence System 1.2 The Therapeutic Process 2. The Participants: Therapist and Patient 2.1 The Therapist 2.2 The Patient 3. The Therapeutic Setting 3.1 Physical Conditions 3.2 Time and Scheduling 3.3 General Behaviour of Patient and Therapist 3.4 The Technical Agreement 4. Opening Phases of Treatment 4.1 The Initial Interviews 4.2 Beginning Therapy 5. The Middle Phase I: Therapeutic Alliance and Transference II: Resistance, Change and Working Through III: Psychotherapeutic Technique: Theory and Intervention 6. Termination 6.1 Criteria for Termination 6.2 Forced and Premature Terminations.
Biography
William H. Reid, MD, MPH, has been a psychiatrist and psychotherapist for over 50 years. When Basic Intensive Psychotherapy was first published, he was psychiatry residency director at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and on the adjunct faculties of Northwestern University and Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. He spent most of his clinical and academic career working with patients and teaching all levels of psychology and psychiatry trainees. Today, he is professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Dell Medical School, and clinical or adjunct professor at Texas Tech and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School; Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), Fellow Emeritus of the American College of Psychiatrists, and author, co-author or editor of some 18 books and hundreds of papers in the field.
Original Review of Basic Intensive Psychotherapy:
‘Reid’s book is straightforward…The chapter dealing with fees, note-taking, gifts etc is refreshingly clear and description of treatment phases practical…’ J. B. Brown, British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 139, Issue 5 (1981)
