Horrocks (currently a psychotherapist in private practice) provides an introduction to one-on-one psychotherapeutic theory and practice. He first summarizes the important schools of psychotherapy, discussing Freud and Jung, humanistic psychology, cognitive therapy, and neuroscience. After then writing about the practical and ethical nature of psychotherapy as a profession, he turns to such issues as time, space, and money as the basic parameters providing structure to therapy, the ways therapists work with clients, and the relationship between therapist and client. Finally he explores how thinking, feeling, and the body are dealt with in therapy; the issue of negativity in therapist and client; the role of dreams, fantasies, and other kinds of symbolic structures in therapy; and some difficult challenges found in psychotherapy, including borderline clients, narcissistic clients, and the very depressed. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)