Beyond the therapeutic relationship
Subtitle: behavioral, biological, and cognitive foundations of psychotherapy
By: Frederic J. Leger ; foreword by Arnold A. Lazarus.
Series: Advances in psychology and mental health
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Psychotherapy -- Philosophy.
Description: Seeking to transfer knowledge across ideological boundaries within a theoretically valid, scientific framework, Beyond the Therapeutic Relationship: Behavioral, Biological, and Cognitive Foundations of Psychotherapy draws upon and relates existing research from psychotherapy and the allied fields of human behavior. Author Frederick J. Leger has successfully cut across multifarious therapies to create an integrated, high-order theory that unites psychotherapy's disparate forces.

In the process, he addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the field of psychotherapy, the paradigm of the therapeutic relationship and its centrality to therapeutic change, the difficulties of creating a "scientific discipline" from the study of the psyche, and how the factionalization of psychology into different competing schools results in the factionalization of the person.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-315) and index.