ABSTRACT
In Part I we argued that people may become ill and present problems to a potential helper, such as a doctor, when in unbearable conflict with unacceptable and often unconscious aspects of themselves and their relationships or struggling with the effects of harmful early experiences. The basis of dynamic psychotherapy is the provision of a setting in which a person may begin to be reconciled with these disowned aspects of himself and his experience. Essentially, the setting for this process is the relationship with the therapist; without it psychotherapy cannot begin.
