This provocative book presents different points of view, arguments, and counterarguments as to what constitutes the therapeutic encounter. The therapeutic alliance is a means of working together. a curative agent, a myth with sicker patients, a result of treatment rather than a basis for it, the best predictor of therapeutic success, a monument to mutual humanity, and a reflexive gesundheit to a sneeze!

Levy, Steven T., MD (Emory Univ)

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