This book presents the fundamentals and application of "Focus" and focal therapy - a time-efficient intervention in psychodynamic psychotherapy that emphasizes understanding the individual in their uniqueness. The psychotherapist, psychiatrist, and psychosomatic physician learns how to recognize the symptom as a specific element of patient communication through intersubjectivity and resonance, and how to integrate it into the helping encounter. Concisely, practice-oriented, and with numerous case examples, the author demonstrates how the implicit knowledge expressed in the symptom can be discussed and transformed. He also takes into account the nonverbal emotional attunement of those involved. In this book, interested readers will discover the context and possibilities of focal therapy for their practice, always building on careful adherence to scientific standards.