Therapist and client : a relational approach to psychotherapy / Patrick Nolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nolan, Patrick, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapist and patient.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Summary:

"Therapist and Client: A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy provides a guide to the fundamental interpersonal elements of the therapeutic relationship that make it the most effective factor in therapy. Presents the fundamental interpersonal elements that make the therapeutic relationship the most effective factor in psychotherapy Explores and integrates a range of approaches from various schools, from psychoanalysis to body-oriented psychotherapy and humanistic psychotherapies Offers clear and practical explanations of the intersubjective aspects of therapy Demonstrates the pivotal need to work in the present moment in order to effect change and tailor therapy to the client Provides detailed case studies and numerous practical applications of infant research and the unified body-mind perspective increasingly revealed by neuroscience"-- Provided by publisher.

"Therapist and Client: A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy provides an invaluable guide to the fundamental interpersonal elements that comprise the most effective factor in therapy-the therapeutic relationship"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Therapist and Client: A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Applying Findings from Infant Research; Introduction; Intersubjectivity; References; 2 The Interpersonal Relationship; Introduction; The Evolution of a Relational Approach; The Therapist: Self with Other; Reflecting on Self and Other; Repairing the Relationship; References; 3 Potential Space, Creativity and Play; Introduction; Intersubjectivity - the Realm of Potential Space; The Therapeutic Space; Creativity and Play; References; 4 The Intersubjective Experience

IntroductionDefining and Exploring the Intersubjective Experience; References; 5 The Relational Body-Mind; Introduction; The Nature of the Relational Body-Mind; A Relational Body-Mind Perspective; Five Modes of Experience, Function and Expression; Taking a Body-Mind Stance; Relational Body-Mind Therapy; Transference-Countertransference and the Body-Mind; 'Fragile' Clients; References; 6 Working with Trauma and Fragile Clients; Introduction; Therapy for the Traumatized Body-Mind; Working with Fragile Clients; References; 7 Adapting Therapy to the Client: A Relational Approach; Introduction

AssessmentCreating the Therapeutic Frame; Tailoring the Therapist's Stance; Choosing a Level; Staying Adaptable and Relational; Arriving at an Individual Style; References; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613615510

9781119942238

1119942233

9781280585685

1280585684

9781119943303

1119943302

9781119943297

1119943299

OCLC:

778314822