This new title in the Palgrave Psychotherapy Series provides practioners, students and teachers, with a detailed, in-depth framework for thinking about the aims of psychotherapy and the issues that affect the process of working to achieve change. Briggs comprehensively reviews the formulations of change from different perspectives, and uses these contexts to explore points of contact and divergence within different approaches: psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and humanistic.