Download or read book Psychotherapy and the Lonely Patient written by Samuel M Natale and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an important new book focusing on the contribution of the therapist's love and empathy to the therapeutic process. Technique without dedication, discipline, and understanding will rarely benefit patients nor help resolve their conflicts. Psychoanalytic Technique demonstrates how the therapist's countertransference feelings, anxieties, wishes, and superego admonitions shape his or her therapeutic interventions.