The Therapeutic Relationship

by Clarkson, Petruska

• ISBN13: 9781861563811
• ISBN10: 1861563817
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-07
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This text provides coverage of the uses and abuses of the therapeutic relationship in counselling, psychology, psychotherapy and related fields. It provides a framework for integration, pluralism or deepening singularity with reference to five kinds of therapeutic relationship potentially available in every kind of counselling or psychodynamic work.The work incoporates training and supervision perspectives and examples of course design, uses in assessment and applications to group and couples as well as to organizations.Dealing with an issue of increasing complexity, the book should be of value and significance to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, clinical and counselling psychologists and other professionals working in the field of helping human relationships such as doctors, social workers, teachers and counsellors.

Author Biography

Professor Petruska Clarkson is affiliated to PHYSIS in London. She is world-renowned for her work in the psychotherapy field.

Table of Contents

Beyond Schoolism quiz	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Foreword to the second edition	xi
Preface to the first edition	xv
Preface to the second edition	xxvii
Introduction	xxxi
Stephanie Wilson
Section 1 A multiplicity of relationships in psychotherapy	1	(32)
Chapter 1 Five facets of the therapeutic relationship	3	(30)
Counterpoint: Eros in the consulting room
Section 2 The five facets differentiated	33	(202)
Chapter 2 The working alliance	35	(32)
Counterpoint: Vengeance of the victim
Chapter 3 The transference/countertransference relationship Counterpoint: Story as medicine, narrative to sing for the world	67	(46)
Chapter 4 The developmentally needed or reparative relationship Counterpoint: The reluctant adult	113	(39)
Chapter 5 The person-to-person, or dialogic, relationship Counterpoint: Values in psychotherapy	152	(35)
Chapter 6 The transpersonal relationship Counter-counterpoint	187	(48)
Section 3 The five-relationship framework in practice, training, supervision, ethics and research	235	(120)
Chapter 7 The five-relationship framework in clinical practice	237	(41)
Counterpoint: Being creative; creative being
Chapter 8 Training, supervision and ethical issues	278	(49)
Counterpoint: In recognition of dual relationships
Coda: The Indian Tree	327	(2)
Chapter 9 Researching the 'therapeutic relationship'	329	(26)
Appendix A: BACP case study using the Clarkson five-relational model as a theoretical and clinical framework for psychotherapy integration: Three perspectives on supervision - from the psychotherapist, the supervisor and the client	355	(9)
Barbara Dale
Appendix B: BPS process report using the Clarkson five-relational model as integrative psychotherapy in therapeutic counselling psychology	364	(20)
Janet Johnson
Appendix C: Different theoretical understandings and therapeutic approaches to the 'self', applying the Clarkson seven-level model - an example	384	(3)
References	387	(30)
Index	417