Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Article AbstractBecause this piece does not have an abstract, we have provided for your benefit the first 3 sentences of the full text.Although the editor of the book review section of the Journal did not know it, when he asked me to review the Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy, he was providing me with a unique opportunity. In late 1970, I was among the clinicians initially trained in interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) by Gerald Klerman and Myrna Weissman, and I participated in the early trials of the treatment that included videotaped therapy sessions that were evaluated by them. This initial work focused on the treatment of depression and resulted in the first IPT manual published in 1984.