The Space Between

by Flaskas, Carmel; Mason, Barry; Perlesz, Amaryll; Byng-Hall, John

• ISBN13: 9781855753655
• ISBN10: 1855753650
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

"This book, which comprises contributions from many well known authors, takes an important step in the field of family therapy towards linking many fruitful approaches. Sheila McNamee (2004) recently suggested that we have reached the point when we should be promiscuous rather than remaining faithful to one pure approach. This allows us to enrich our skills rather than confining them. Nevertheless, we still need a shared focus. What better place to start than by exploring the space between the therapist and client. So much of our thinking has centered on both what therapists do, or what families are. Since the emergence of second order perspectives, however, there has been an increasing interest in how family and therapists mutually influence each other in the therapeutic relationship."-- John Byng-Hall from the Foreword The latest volume in the Systemic Thinking and Practice Series focuses on THE therapeutic relationship between the family and the therapist, an element present in every therapy session. The chapters discuss the different aspects of the therapeutic relationship that can sometimes be very difficult or sensitive; unsuccessful therapy, cultural issues including language difficulties, same-sex couples, and therapist's use of herself within therapy. Clinical examples are found throughout the book to illustrate both positive as well as negative outcomes of therapy. Contributors: Rhonda Brown, John Burnham, John Byng-Hall, Alan Carr, Carmel Flaskas, Jo Howard, Alfred Hurst, Ellie Kavner, Sebastian Kraemer, Britt Krause, Rabia Malik, Maeve Malley, Michael Maltby, Barry Mason, Sue McNab, Amaryll Perlesz, David Pocock, Hitesh Raval, Justin Schlicht, Lennox K. Thomas

Table of Contents

SERIES EDITORS' FOREWORD	vii
ABOUT THE AUTHORS	ix
FOREWORD by John Byng-Hall	xiii
INTRODUCTION	xix
1 Relational reflexivity: a tool for socially constructing therapeutic relationships
John Burnham	1	(18)
2 From system to psyche
Justin Schlicht and Sebastian Kraemer	19	(14)
3 "Alice and Alice not through the looking glass": therapeutic transparency and the therapeutic and supervisory relationship
Maeve Malley and Alfred Hurst	33	(14)
4 Working with men who use violence and control
Jo Howard	47	(16)
5 Not getting lost in translation: establishing a working alliance with co-workers and interpreters
Hitesh Raval and Michael Maltby	63	(16)
6 Intercultural: where the systemic meets the psychoanalytic in the therapeutic relationship
Lennox K. Thomas	79	(16)
7 Before and beyond words: embodiment and intercultural therapeutic relationships in family therapy
Rabia Malik and Inga-Britt Krause	95	(16)
8 Sticky situations, therapy mess: on impasse and the therapist's position
Carmel Flaskas	111	(16)
9 Systems of the heart: evoking the feeling self in family therapy
David Pocock	127	(14)
10 Shame and the therapeutic relationship
Ellie Kavner and Sue McNab	141	(16)
11 Relational risk-taking and the therapeutic relationship
Barry Mason	157	(14)
12 Adopting a research lens in family therapy: a means to therapeutic collaboration
Amaryll Perlesz and Rhonda Brown	171	(16)
13 Research on the therapeutic alliance in family therapy
Alan Carr	187	(14)
REFERENCES	201	(22)
INDEX	223