Jane S. Hall, LCSW, FIPA, Former President of the Contemporary Freudian Society, member of the IPA, APsaA, & AAPCSW. Past Board-member of: APsaA, IPA, NYSPP. Teacher, lecturer, and consultant, nationally and internationally. Author of: Deepening the Treatment (1998), Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy (2004) and journal articles. Specializes in individual and small-group supervision and consulting (online and telephone), and leads groups on specific topics for graduates. On the Faculties of three NY institutes, a founder of the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and Creator and first director of the Psychotherapy Program at CFS. Jane is currently retired from seeing patients.

Almost everyone who crosses the therapist's threshold is looking for a second chance¿a shot at living a richer, less restricted life. Understanding how echoes of the past resonate in and shape the present provides opportunities to resolve crippling conflicts and make new choices. Furthermore, such insight produces a sense of mastery. But not everyone is aware that the problems s/he brings into weekly therapy are just the first few bars of his or her song. Jane Hall wrote Deepening the Treatment to help the psycho-dynamically informed therapist help the patient recognize that exploring ideas and feelings is a journey worth taking and that the therapist is a trustworthy guide. Often, people need to wade before they feel comfortable diving into deep waters. Hall introduces a responsible if unconventional application of respectful, nondirective therapy, and she supports her vision with clinical examples and thoughtful attention to issues of basic technique¿among them separation, termination, self-disclosure, frequency of sessions, tolerating patient rage, and, of course, interpreting the transference.