title: A technique of insight-directed psychotherapy for health service use.
abstract: A technique of psychotherapy seemingly compatible with psychoanalytical knowledge is described, and compared and contrasted with psychoanalysis. Its mode of action, efficacy, advantages and difficulties, and its suitability for once-a-week individual or group psychotherapy and therefore for Health Service use is discussed.
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D004645:Empathy; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D014167:Transference, Psychology