1. Emotional Engagement and Mutual Influence: Basic Issues as Therapy Begins

2. Mutuality and Collaboration: Influencing Each Other

3. Redefining Regression: Facilitating Therapeutic Vulnerability

4. Evaluating Interventions: Tracking the Client's Response

5. Self-Disclosure and Advice: Understanding How and When the Therapist's Disclosures Are Therapeutic

6. Managing Emotion: Affective Communication and the Role of Interaction

7. The Special Problem of Affect Management in Treating Borderline Personality Disorders

8. Confrontation and Countertransference Anger: Overcoming the Therapist's Aversion to Conflict

9. Erotic Feelings: How They Help or Hinder the Therapeutic Process

10. Empowering the Client: The Road to Independence

Conclusion

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