This book highlights common similarities between the various schools of psychotherapy. It provides psychotherapists with the underlying neurophysiological, developmental psychological and relationship-oriented matrix (basic needs and their regulation, deficits, trauma and conflict processing patterns, including accompanying exercises) as well as opportunities for healing correction and stabilisation - and the ways in which to apply these methods in a therapeutically mindful way for the benefit of the patient.

The new university-based psychotherapy training covers the four fundamental schools of psychotherapy, i.e. the previous standard approaches plus the systemic and humanistic ones. Focusing on the common ground builds bridges of understanding and encourages collaboration. This expanded, new range of methods to access patients constitutes a substantial development in the field of psychotherapy and will also influence the psychotherapy practice of experienced colleagues.

Written for medical and psychological psychotherapists, psychosomatic doctors, psychiatrists and other specialists with additional psychotherapeutic qualifications, and for students of psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy Between Tradition and Awakening and Between Multiplicity and Integrity
Lotte Hartmann-Kottek
Pages 1-34
Efficacies and Common Factors
Lotte Hartmann-Kottek
Pages 35-101
Sequences of Order, Reflection and Development Dynamics: The Interplay of Multiplicity Within the Whole
Lotte Hartmann-Kottek
Pages 103-224
Systems and Interspaces
Lotte Hartmann-Kottek
Pages 225-255
An Understanding of Health and Illness
Lotte Hartmann-Kottek
Pages 257-334
The Practical Approach Many Paths Similar Goals: The Diversity and Similarities between Psychotherapeutic Treatment Methods
Lotte Hartmann-Kottek
Pages 335-408
The Spirit of the Times and Cultural Epochs as Reference Systems Along with Their Transformation of the Ideal Level of Human Development A Historical Journey Into the Past to Learn for the Future
Lotte Hartmann-Kottek
Pages 409-462
Research and Research Crises in Psychotherapy
Lotte Hartmann-Kottek
Pages 463-481
Conclusion
Lotte Hartmann-Kottek
Pages 483-491