Table of Contents

1: Introduction and Overview; 2: The Anatomy of a Message Structure and Motivation; 3: Developing Patterns Choosing Responses to the Environment; 4: Information-Gathering Process in Psychotherapy; 5: The Use of Conventions; 6: Interventions in Psychotherapy; 7: Labeling the Therapist’s Activity; 8: Content Choices in the Psychotherapeutic Hour; 9: Extratherapeutic Incidents; 10: Technical Problems in the Therapeutic Process; 11: Communication Analysis in Family Group and Group Therapy; 12: The Child’s Communication in Therapy; 13: The Changing Landscape of Psychotherapy Practice Managed Care; 14: The Therapist as a Consultant; 15: Supervision in Communication Analytic Therapy *; 16: Nonverbal Communication in Psychotherapy; 17: The Ethical Problems of Control of Behavior; 18: Pills and Caring Talk; 19: Summary and Conclusions