Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, is CUNY Distinguished Professor in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Yale University and is a graduate of the postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy at New York University, where he is also a faculty member. Dr. Wachtel has lectured and given workshops throughout the world on psychotherapy, personality theory, and the applications of psychological theory and research to the major social issues of our time. He has been a leading voice for integrative thinking in the human sciences and was a cofounder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. Dr. Wachtel is a recipient of the Hans H. Strupp Memorial Award for psychoanalytic writing, teaching, and research; the Distinguished Psychologist Award from Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of the American Psychological Association (APA); and the Scholarship and Research Award from Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of APA.

Introduction
1. Rethinking the Talking Cure: The Therapist Speaks Too
I. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations
2. The Continuing Evolution of Psychotherapy: New and Converging Developments in Psychoanalytic, Cognitive-Behavioral, Systemic, and Experiential Approaches
3. Attending to Attachment: Accelerating Interest in the Therapeutic Implications of Attachment Theory and Research
4. Cyclical Psychodynamics I: Vicious and Virtuous Circles
5. Cyclical Psychodynamics II: Anxiety, Exposure, and Interpretation
6. Cyclical Psychodynamics III: Insight, the Therapeutic Relationship, and the World Outside
II. Clinical Applications and Guidelines
7. Accusatory and Facilitative Comments: Criticism and Permission in the Therapeutic Dialogue
8. Exploration, Not Interrogation
9. Building on the Patient's Strengths
10. Affirmation and Change
11. Attribution and Suggestion
12. Reframing, Relabeling, and Paradox
13. Therapist Self-Disclosure: Prospects and Pitfalls
14. Achieving Resolution of the Patient's Difficulties: Resistance, Working Through, and Following Through
III. Postscript
15. Therapeutic Communication with Couples, Ellen F. Wachtel