The mirror crack'd : when good enough therapy goes wrong and other cautionary tales for humanistic practitioners / Anne Kearns, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kearns, Anne, B.A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanistic counseling.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychologists--Complaints against.

Psychologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Revised edition. This title is as a wake-up call to take seriously the climate in which mental health professionals practice in which complaints and civil actions against psychotherapists and counsellors are on the increase and to sharpen assessment skills accordingly. It is also designed to help professionals to think about the "therapeutic frame" and what can happen to both the practitioner and the client when it is broken and finally to give voice to some colleagues who have been involved in the area of complaints in the hope that you and the organisations under whose codes of ethics you practice will take more of an interest in making those codes and frameworks more relevant to the intricacies of the therapeutic relationship. The message is simple: injuries that happen in relationships need to be addressed in relationships."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER; THE MIRROR CRACK'D; CHAPTER ONE: The mirror crack'd; CHAPTER TWO: The therapeutic frame: "Good fences make good neighbours" (Robert Frost); CHAPTER THREE: Assessment and risk-management; CHAPTER FOUR: Love and hate in the in-between; CHAPTER FIVE: Working through an impasse; CHAPTER SIX: Where there's smoke there's fire; CHAPTER SEVEN: The courage to be human: A humanistic approach to conflict resolution; CHAPTER EIGHT: "Everything's fine here"-or is it? A mirror on our training institutions; CHAPTER NINE: Intimacy, risk, and reciprocity in psychotherapy: Intricate ethical challenges

APPENDIX: Initial therapy agreementREFERENCES

Notes:

This edition originally published: London : Karnac Books, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-90724-9

0-429-48247-7

1-283-06941-5

9786613069412

1-84940-577-8

9780429482472

OCLC:

767571731