This book illustrates the process of clinical interpretation. The first phase of interpretation consists of collecting and observing clinical data, and the second entails understanding, justifying, progressively modifying, and communicating latent meanings to the patient. The book includes clinical illustrations from a continuous case report of an entire treatment. The most relevant and revealing interpretations are selected, and intervening clinical developments are summarized. This helps the therapist follow the interpretations and their outcomes, and to see how interpretive problems are solved. (592 pp.)