First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

In this innovative book two leading practitioners tell the stories of the people they have met as clients and how they, as therapists, tried to help them. Through compelling case studies, Peven and Shulman invite the reader into their thoughts and feelings about their clients, their processes and treatment techniques, and their subsequent successes and failures. The authors describe a cognitive, constructionist, interpersonal dynamic approach based primarily on the principles of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology. The cases studies represent several different DSM-IV diagnostic categories, and the authors offer their own theoretical perspectives and treatment methods for each category.
With compassion, insight, and skill, the authors take complicated material and present it in a clearly written and easy to understand fashion.

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This manual retains Adler's concept that the life style of any individual is a singular pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting that is unique to that individual and represents the context in which all specific manifestations must be considered.

Providing a means for assessing the life style and using the information in therapy, it explains what life style is, elements of the family constellation and its interpretation, early recollections and their interpretations, and means for obtaining data.