Developing the Therapeutic Relationship Integrating Case Studies, Research, and Practice

by Tishby, Orya; Wiseman, Hadas

• ISBN13: 9781433829222
• ISBN10: 1433829223
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-06-26
• Publisher: American Psychological Association

Summary

In this book, master clinicians and psychotherapy researchers examine how technique and the therapeutic relationship are inseparably intertwined, and engaging case studies demonstrate how successful therapists negotiate this complex relationship.

What makes therapy work? Clearly, the therapeutic alliance is an important component of a successful relationship between therapist and client, but how does it fit into the relationship more broadly conceived? A better question might be “What works with whom and in which circumstances?’      
 
Using a variety of theoretical and research “lenses” and drawing on various models of psychotherapy, including psychodynamic therapy, cognitive–behavioral therapy, emotion‑focused therapy, and brief family therapy, the contributors discuss the factors affecting client outcomes. The link between relationship processes and technique is bought to life in a rich array of engaging case studies that demonstrate how successful therapists negotiate the relationship, make key moment‑to‑moment decisions, and promote positive change in their clients.
 

Author Biography

Orya Tishby, PsyD, received her master’s degree from Hebrew University and doctorate from Rutgers, where she received the 1991 Best Dissertation
Award from the New Jersey Psychological Association. She is an associate professor in clinical psychology and clinical social work, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem in Israel, and is the former director of the Hebrew University Psychological Services. She is head of the clinical psychology graduate program, and clinical faculty at the School of Social Work and Social Welfare, as well as the director of the Freud Center for Research in Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Tishby practices and supervises long- and short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, and her research focuses on the therapeutic relationship and
countertransference. She is coeditor (with Hadas Wiseman) of The Therapeutic Relationship: Innovative Investigations.
 
Hadas Wiseman, PhD, completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She received clinical training at the Clark Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, and at the Psychological Services at Hebrew University, where she also completed her postdoctorate. She is currently a professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development, Faculty of Education, at the University of Haifa, Israel, and chair of the doctoral studies committee of the Department of Counseling and Human Development. Dr. Wiseman is also on faculty in the Weiss–Livnat International MA Program in Holocaust Studies, University of Haifa. Her scholarly work and research has focused on psychotherapy process, the therapeutic relationship, attachment and relationship patterns in psychotherapy, personal and professional development of psychotherapists, and intergenerational trauma and interpersonal relationships in families of Holocaust survivors. She served as president of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research. She coauthored (with Jacques P. Barber) Echoes of the Trauma: Relational Themes and Emotions in Children of Holocaust Survivors and coedited (with Orya Tishby) The Therapeutic Relationship: Innovative Investigations. Dr. Wiseman is a certified clinical psychologist in private practice in Kiryat Tivon, Israel.

Table of Contents

Contents

Contributors

Introduction
Orya Tishby and Hadas Wiseman

Chapter 1. The Psychotherapy Relationship: Where Does the Alliance Fit?
Adam O. Horvath

I. The Case Studies: Integrating Research and Practice

Chapter 2. You Can’t Cross the Same River Twice: A Case Study of Alliance Rupture and Repair  
Laura Kohberger, Jeremy D. Safran, and J. Christopher Muran

Chapter 3. Patient and Therapist Relational Patterns: Implicit Negotiations
Emanuel Schattner and Orya Tishby

Chapter 4. Closeness and Distance Dynamics in the Therapeutic Relationship
Hadas Wiseman and Dana Atzil-Slonim

Chapter 5. Facilitating the Sense of Feeling Understood in Patients With Maladaptive Relationships
Sigal Zilcha-Mano and Jacques P. Barber

Chapter 6. Clinical Choice Points and Professional Ethics in Psychoanalysis
Gaby Shefler  

Chapter 7. The Therapeutic Relationship: A Warm, Important, and Potentially Mutative Factor in Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy
Louis G. Castonguay, Soo Jeong Youn, Henry Xiao, and Andrew A. McAleavey

Chapter 8. Negotiating Multiple Roles and Stances in Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy
Yoni Elizur and Jonathan D. Huppert

Chapter 9. Affirming the Case for Positive Regard
Barry A. Farber and Jessica Y. Suzuki

Chapter 10. Empathy and Responsiveness in Emotion-Focused Therapy
Jeanne C. Watson

Chapter 11. Where the Alliance and Systems Theory Meet in Brief Family Therapy
Laurie Heatherington, Valentín Escudero, and Myrna L. Friedlander

Chapter 12. The Use of Immediacy in Supervisory Relationships
Clara E. Hill and Shudarshana Gupta

II. Mapping Models and Conclusions

Chapter 13. Mapping Models of the Therapeutic Relationship: Implications for Integrative Practice
Stanley B. Messer and Daniel B. Fishman

Chapter 14. Conclusions: The Tapestry of the Therapeutic Relationship and Recommendations for Clinicians and Researchers
Orya Tishby and Hadas Wiseman

Index

About the Editors