Treating with Respect

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78220-454-1
Verlag: Karnac Books

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: The Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability Monograph

Treating with Respect was adopted as the motto of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability at its inception in May 2000, and continues to inform its ethos and philosophy. This collection of papers examines the meaning of this phrase and how it shapes the work of Disability Therapists. More importantly, it illustrates how the key tenets of Disability Therapy can be used in psychotherapeutic work with patients without disabilities. To treat with respect implies a relational approach that acknowledges the relative powerlessness and vulnerability of the disabled patient, placing upon the clinician a responsibility to work with anxiety-based defences in ways that actively empower the patient. Respecting the vulnerability of the patient does not imply an abandonment of the guiding principles of analytic neutrality, transference interpretation and the maintenance of boundary. It does, however, underpin the need for adaptation and modulation of all these principles to ensure that the patient is not further disabled by the therapeutic process itself. The intended readership of this volume is a wide one, as it is targeted at psychotherapists working with the non-disabled population, alongside the existing audience of Disability Therapists. It is the first concentrated attempt to integrate the ethos and philosophy of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability with the theory and practice of the wider psychotherapy world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corbett, Alan

Über Autor(innen)

Corbett, Alan
Dr Alan Corbett was Chair of the Training Committee of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, and a member of the Training Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. He was Director of Respond, National Clinical Director of the CARI Foundation, and Clinical Director of ICAP. He was a training analyst and supervisor, a psychotherapist with the School of Life, Consultant Psychotherapist with the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, and consulted to a wide range of organisations. He also taught on a number of psychoanalytic trainings in Britain and Ireland, lectured internationally and published widely on disability, psychotherapy and trauma.