This timely new book explores the therapeutic relationship in the psychological therapies. It will be an important resource for practitioners including counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, trainers and trainees and all those who work with people in therapeutic contexts. The book reviews the importance of the therapeutic relationship within the key modalities of person-centred, psychodynamic, existential, gestalt, transactional analysis, cognitive behavioural therapy, relational and transpersonal approaches. The place of power and oppression and the social context of the relationship in therapy are further reviewed Authors examine what the research really tells us about outcomes in therapy and explores the place of research for the psychological therapies. In a series of commissioned chapters significant themes are presented which enable the reader to consider their impact on therapeutic practice. These include: touch, a Japanese perspective, spirituality, I-Thou relatedness and the contribution of Buber, the creative therapies and working with groups. The reader is invited to consider their own modality, their practice and their understanding of what really works in therapy. --- from the publisher Praise for The Therapeutic Relationship: ‘This text will be of immense value to students, lecturers and practitioners — a valuable resource to those exploring different theoretical models in psychotherapy. The contributors provide clear expositions of their original philosophic and clinical hypotheses and how these are blended into contemporary relational practice.’ Colin Lago, author of Race, Culture and Counselling: The Ongoing Challenge. (OUP, 2006) ‘As therapy moves from psychological tool to a greater focus on the nature and quality of the relationship itself, this book sums up and critically reflects on the different views of the therapeutic relationship. It offers new perspectives that empower the practitioner and illuminate theory, based in reflective practice. This is essential reading for therapists and teachers of therapy alike.’ Simon Robinson, Professor of Applied and Professional Ethics, Leeds Metropolitan University Contents:
1. The Therapeutic Relationship: Background and context. Stephen Paul and Sheila Haugh 2. The Relationship, not the Therapy? What the research tells us. Stephen Paul and Sheila Haugh 3. The Therapeutic Relationship in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Pam Howard 4. The Therapeutic Relationship: A person-centred perspective. Sheila Haugh 5. The Therapeutic Relationship: The existential approach. Ernesto Spinelli 6. The Therapeutic Relationship: Gestalt therapy. Toni Gilligan 7. Transactional Analysis: A diversity of relationships. Jane Walford and Robin Walford 8. Cognitive Behavioural Dimensions of the Therapeutic Relationship. Mike Thomas 9. The Relational Approach. Geoff Pelham 10. Transpersonal Dimensions on the Therapeutic Relationship. John Shiers and Stephen Paul 11. The Therapeutic Relationship: A research enquiry. Jerold D. Bozarth and Noriko Motomasa 12. In and Out of the Mainstream: Therapy in its social and political context. Nick Totton 13. A Japanese Perspective. Yukishige Nakata 14. Interconnections between Privilege and Oppression. Kay McFarlane 15. The Ground of Our Relating: Martin Buber’s I and Thou. Richard Worsley 16. Spiritual Dimensions. William West 17. Touch and the Therapeutic Relationship: Shifting a paradigm. Andrea Uphoff 18. The Therapeutic Relationship in Creative Arts Psychotherapy. Jenny Stacey 19. The Relationship in Group Therapy. Stephen Paul 20. Conclusion. Sheila Haugh and Stephen Paul |