This volume provides up-to-date insights into the psychoanalysis founded by Sigmund Freud as a treatment procedure, set in the context of its historical development and its relevance today. Important theoretical and technical treatment concepts, as well as the epistemological status of psychoanalysis, are discussed. The book is supplemented with an overview of the general and specific theory of disturbance and change in psychoanalysis and notes on the state of research, institutional structures and developments, as well as resources for further training.

Prof. Timo Storck is professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the College of Psychology in Berlin and is a psychological psychotherapist (analytical psychology/depth psychology).