Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy.

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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wachtel, Paul L.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Guilford Publications, 2007.
Subjects:	Interpersonal psychotherapy. Interpersonal relations. Psychoanalysis. Psychotherapist and patient. psychoanalysis. Interpersonal psychotherapy Interpersonal relations Psychoanalysis Psychotherapist and patient
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Table of Contents:

Context and relationship in psychotherapy: an introduction
How do we understand another person?: one-person and two-person perspectives
The dynamics of personality: one-person and two-person views
From two-person to contextual: beyond intimacy and the consulting room
Drives, relationships, and the foundations of the relational point of view
The limits of the archaeological vision: relational theory and the cyclical-contextual model
Self-states, dissociation, and the schemas of subjectivity and intersubjectivity
Exploration, support, self-acceptance, and the "school of suspicion"
Insight, direct experience, and the implications of a new understanding of anxiety
Enactments, new relational experience, and implicit relational knowing
Confusions about self-disclosure: real issues, pseudo-issues, and the inevitability of trade-offs
The "inner" world, the "outer" world, and the lived-in world: mobilizing for change in the patient's daily life.

Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy.

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