Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781606230114
Subjects: Psychotherapist and patient; Interpersonal relations; Psychoanalysis; Interpersonal psychotherapy
Description: Explores a different direction in psychoanalytic thought that can enable therapists of any orientation to better understand and help their patients. This book also preserves and extends, the depth of understanding of human experience and psychological conflict that has always been the strength of the psychoanalytic approach.
Table of contents: title: Context and relationship in psychotherapy: an introduction; title: How do we understand another person?: one-person and two-person perspectives; title: The dynamics of personality: one-person and two-person views; title: From two-person to contextual: beyond intimacy and the consulting room; title: Drives, relationships, and the foundations of the relational point of view; title: The limits of the archaeological vision: relational theory and the cyclical-contextual model; title: Self-states, dissociation, and the schemas of subjectivity and intersubjectivity; title: Exploration, support, self-acceptance, and the "school of suspicion"; title: Insight, direct experience, and the implications of a new understanding of anxiety; title: Enactments, new relational experience, and implicit relational knowing; title: Confusions about self-disclosure: real issues, pseudo-issues, and the inevitability of trade-offs; title: The "inner" world, the "outer" world, and the lived-in world: mobilizing for change in the patient's daily life.