1 Approaching Positive Psychotherapy.- 1. The Mazeof Psychotherapy.- 2. Health-Illness.- 3. Neurosis and Neurotics.- 4. Are You in Tune with the Situation ?.- 5. Caricaturesof Psychotherapy.- 6. Positive Psychotherapy.- 2 Introduction to Differentiation Analysis.- The Actual Capacities.- Theory of Positive Psychotherapy.- Microtraumas.- Selective Susceptibility to Conflict.- Functions of the Actual Capacities.- 3 Basic Capacities.- What Do All People Have in Common?.- Basic Capacities in the Literature.- Interaction Analysis.- Positive Psychotherapy and the Etiology of Disease.- 4 Reaction Types - Concepts - Misunderstandings.- 1. Three Reaction Types.- 2. Concepts and Myths.- 3. Misunderstandings.- 5 The First Interview in Positive Psychotherapy.- 6 The Five Stages of Treatment in Positive Psychotherapy.- First Stage: Observation/Distancing.- Second Stage: MakinganInventory.- Third Stage: Situational Encouragement.- Fourth Stage: Verbalization.- Fifth Stage: Broadeningof Goals.- 7 Positive Psychotherapy and Other Psychotherapies.- Critique and Possibilities for Cooperation.- Positive Psychotherapy as Brief Therapy.- Positive Psychotherapy and Other Theories.- Psychoanalysis - Behavior Therapy - Individual Psychology - Analytical Psychology - Logotherapy - Conversation Therapy - Gestalt Therapy - Primal Therapy - Transactional Analysis Positive Psychotherapy and Its Practical Application.- Translation of Conventional Expressions for Illness.- The Individual Actual Capacities.- Statistical Investigations in Positive Psychotherapy.- References.- Index of Namesand Subjects.- About the Author.