Thanks to lengthy experience in which clinical practice, research and training were strongly intertwined, the author offers the reader a model for clinical intervention in psychology. The many elements of intervention - including opening interview sessions, demand analysis, structuring the setting, the clinical relationship, drawing conclusions, and supervision - are examined without tracing rigid boundaries between them but rather by highlighting their shared contribution to promoting a process of development and change.

Massimo Grasso is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and teaches Clinical Psychology of Intervention at La Sapienza University in Rome.