Vulnerable moments
Subtitle: deepening the therapeutic process
By: by Martin S. Livingston.
Publisher: J. Aronson
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Northvale, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Psychotherapist and patient.; Self-disclosure.; Self-containment (Personality trait); Narcissistic injuries.
Description: "In psychotherapy, there are times when people take the risk of experiencing and exposing hidden aspects of themselves. This book is a study of these times, their nature, their importance, and how they can deepen the therapeutic process.

The word vulnerable means "susceptible to being wounded." People who relinquish their usual characterological defenses open themselves to wounds of many sorts, from peripheral encounters with shame and rejection to direct personal attacks and potentially devastating losses. Still, it is precisely in moments of vulnerability that openness to new experience is possible."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Identity, Vulnerability, and Change: An Introduction 2. Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Selfobject Relationships 3. The Therapist's Attitudes and Interventions 4. The Therapist's Vulnerability 5. Issues of Self-Disclosure 6. Vulnerable Moments in Couple Therapy 7. Vulnerable Moments in Group Therapy 8. Dreams: The Royal Road to the Emergence of the Vulnerable Self 9. An Afterword.