How to Practice Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The CCRT Method is a clinically based and illustrated manual that walks readers through the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) which is the basis of a specific form of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (BPP). The CCRT Method is research-supported, easily operationalized, and reliable.The CCRT method offers symptom relief and limited but significant character change in a strongly interactive sixteen-session format. It focuses on helping the client to work through one crucial, circumscribed area of maladaptive personality style. Small changes in this one behavioral theme have been associated with larger more pervasive shifts in functioning. After presenting general background about BPPs and a specific discussion of the CCRT rationale and process, author Howard E. Book, offers the reader a unique portrait of CCRT therapy in action. In an extended clinical vignette, the reader may follow therapist and client in a step-by-step manner, from initial session, to therapist formation, articulation, and presentation of the CCRT. The volume outlines the sixteen-session course of therapy including termination and follow-up.This book will be of use to clinicians and directors of postgraduate psychology programs, mental health training centers, psychiatric residency programs and to students. Indeed, all clinicians in search of an empirically based and proven therapy format that can be practiced in our increasingly managed-care climate will appreciate these methods.