In this wonderfully illuminating sequel to A Spirit of Inquiry (Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage, 2002), Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of exploratory psychotherapy, by which he means the creative skill - even artistry - that mobilizes

A Facilitating Environment. Sensing into the Mind-States of Another. Affects and the Pathway to Motivation. "The Message Contains the Message": Opening Communication to Its Fullest Revelation. Filling the Narrative Envelope. "The Wearing of Attributions": A Guideline for Therapists to Discover Who They Have Come to Be for Their Patients. Model Scenes: A Guide to Bringing the Theater of the Mind onto the Patient-Therapist Stage. How to Respond to a Message that Indicates There Is Something a Patient Doesn't Want Himself, His Therapist, or Both to Know. The Therapist Speaks. Evaluating Progress. Coda.

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanaytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Analytic Press, 2005) and, with Frank Lachmann and James Fosshage, A Sprit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2002).