The Therapeutic Relationship

This text provides coverage of the uses and abuses of the therapeutic relationship in counselling, psychology, psychotherapy and related fields. It provides a framework for integration, pluralism or deepening singularity with reference to five kinds of therapeutic relationship potentially available in every kind of counselling or psychodynamic work.

The work incoporates training and supervision perspectives and examples of course design, uses in assessment and applications to group and couples as well as to organizations.

Dealing with an issue of increasing complexity, the book should be of value and significance to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, clinical and counselling psychologists and other professionals working in the field of helping human relationships such as doctors, social workers, teachers and counsellors.

Introduction.

Stephanie Wilson - Section 1.

A Multiplicity of relationships in Psychotherapy - Five Facets of The Therapeutic Relationship.

Counterpoint.

Eros in The Consulting Room - Section 2.

The Five Facets differentiated - The Working Alliance.

Counterpoint, Vengeance of The Victim - the Transference/countertransference Relationship.

Counterpoint.

Stories.

Drama and Narratives - The Developmentally Needed or Reparative Relationship.

Counterpoint.

The Reluctant Adult - The Person-to-person Relationship, counterpoint.

Values in Psychotherapy - The Transpersonal Relationship.

Counter-counterpoint - Section 3.

The Five-relationsip Framework in Clinical practice.

Counterpoint.

Being Creative.

Creative Being - Training.

Supervision and Ethical Issues.

Counterpoint.

In Recognition of Dual Relationships - Coda - researching The Therapeutic Relationship.

Index.

Professor Petruska Clarkson is affiliated to PHYSIS in London. She is world-renowned for her work in the psychotherapy field. This text provides coverage of the uses and abuses of the therapeutic relationship in counselling, psychology, psychotherapy and related fields. It provides a framework for integration, pluralism or deepening singularity with reference to five kinds of therapeutic relationship potentially available in every kind of counselling or psychodynamic work.

The work incoporates training and supervision perspectives and examples of course design, uses in assessment and applications to group and couples as well as to organizations.

Dealing with an issue of increasing complexity, the book should be of value and significance to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, clinical and counselling psychologists and other professionals working in the field of helping human relationships such as doctors, social workers, teachers and counsellors.