On The Daily Work of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy focuses on elaborations of the contemporary psychoanalytic "vernacular" (Miller, 2016), within the challenges of psychotherapy both with difficult patients and with the "worried well" and in time-scales of one and two weekly meetings.Its goal is to illustrate consensual paths recognized by clinicians along which the daily conduct of psychodynamic psychotherapy proceeds. At the core of this enterprise is the construction,through clinical dyadic interaction, of a consensual matrix of meaningful plausibility, useful to the patient in recognizing both dimensions of self and interactions with others.

Ian Miller is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, practicing and writing in Dublin, Ireland, where he also leads clinical study/reading groups. He is the author of 'Defining Psychoanalysis: Achieving a Vernacular Expression', 'On Minding and Being Minded: Experiencing Bion and Beckett', and co-author of 'Beckett and Bion: The (Im)patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature' (with Kay Souter). Alistair D. Sweet is director and senior psychotherapist with Meriden Psychotherapy, based in Belfast, United Kingdom. He is also an honorary lecturer and training supervisor in clinical psychology, Queen's University, Belfast. Before entering full-time private practice, he held posts as both senior psychotherapist and head of clinical services with the Northern Ireland Community Addiction Service. His research work on the addictions, disturbances of attachment, and earliest object relations has appeared internationally in a range of peer reviewed journals.