Updating Interpersonal Psychotherapy of Depression (1984), this reference consolidates the art and research behind a treatment developed in the 1970s for depression. Applied now to disorders of behavior and personality as well as mood and adapted to new formats, IPT is presented as an empirically-validated, replicable, and time-limited treatment (the type managed care likes) with rationales, techniques, and case examples. Weissman teaches psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia U.; directs a division of the NY State Psychiatric Institute; and co-authored with the late G. Klerman, this and the 1984 manuals. J. Markowitz, a colleague at Columbia and Cornell U. Medical College, is the other author. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)