title: Crisis Intervention Verbatim Kfir N Crisis Intervention Verbatim Hemisphere Publishing 170pp £9.95 0-89116-837-0.
abstract: It is more than 30 years since Erik Lindemann and Gerald Caplan did their foundational work in elaborating the early theories of crisis intervention, and more than 20 years since these theories became popularised and the volume of literature on the subject burgeoned.