Nolan Therapist and Client

A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-119-94330-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Therapist and Client: A Relational Approach to Psychotherapyprovides a guide to the fundamental interpersonal elements of thetherapeutic relationship that make it the most effective factor intherapy.
* Presents the fundamental interpersonal elements that make thetherapeutic relationship the most effective factor inpsychotherapy
* Explores and integrates a range of approaches from variousschools, from psychoanalysis to body-oriented psychotherapy andhumanistic psychotherapies
* Offers clear and practical explanations of the intersubjectiveaspects of therapy
* Demonstrates the pivotal need to work in the present moment inorder to effect change and tailor therapy to the client
* Provides detailed case studies and numerous practicalapplications of infant research and the unified body-mindperspective increasingly revealed by neuroscience

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nolan, Patrick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction xvii
1 Applying Findings from Infant Research 1
Introduction 1
Intersubjectivity 3
References 24
2 The Interpersonal Relationship 27
Introduction 27
The Evolution of a Relational Approach 28
The Therapist: Self with Other 30
Reflecting on Self and Other 42
Repairing the Relationship 45
References 51
3 Potential Space, Creativity and Play 54
Introduction 54
Intersubjectivity - the Realm of Potential Space55
The Therapeutic Space 56
Creativity and Play 65
References 84
4 The Intersubjective Experience 86
Introduction 86
Defining and Exploring the Intersubjective Experience90
References 104
5 The Relational Body-Mind 106
Introduction 106
The Nature of the Relational Body-Mind 109
A Relational Body-Mind Perspective 112
Five Modes of Experience, Function and Expression 114
Taking a Body-Mind Stance 119
Relational Body-Mind Therapy 121
Transference-Countertransference and the Body-Mind131
'Fragile' Clients 132
References 134
6 Working with Trauma and Fragile Clients 137
Introduction 137
Therapy for the Traumatized Body-Mind 138
Working with Fragile Clients 149
References 157
7 Adapting Therapy to the Client: A Relational Approach159
Introduction 159
Assessment 163
Creating the Therapeutic Frame 171
Tailoring the Therapist's Stance 174
Choosing a Level 184
Staying Adaptable and Relational 189
Arriving at an Individual Style 192
References 194
Index 197

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Nolan is a Psychotherapist and the Director of theIrish Institute for Integrated Psychotherapy. He is co-author ofObject Relations and Integrative Psychotherapy: Tradition andInnovation in Theory and Practice (2002) and has written aboutintegrative, psychoanalytic and body psychotherapy in numerouspublications.