As new forms of psychotherapy proliferate and clinicians increasingly integrate principles across models, a solid understanding of the foundational theories of the field remains critical. Essential Psychotherapies provides systematic and extensive expositions of 12 forms of psychotherapy being practiced today.

The volume's scope encompasses influential treatments that have been developed relatively recently, such as the brief, cognitive, family, relational, and integrative psychotherapies, as well as more traditional treatments, such as psychoanalytic, existential-humanistic, and person-centered psychotherapies, Gestalt, group, and behavior therapy, and Transactional Analysis.

Covering everything from the fundamentals to the latest innovations in theory and practice, eminent authorities represent their respective models in unusually coherent chapters enriched throughout by detailed case material.