Moving Beyond the Comfort Zone in Psychotherapy

Moving Beyond the Comfort Zone in Psychotherapy
ISBN-10
0765703440
ISBN-13
9780765703446
Category
Psychology
Pages
196
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Jason Aronson
Author
Nancy A. Bridges

Description

Moving beyond traditional thinking, the author presents a relational approach that integrates psychoanalytic thinking with the latest findings from infant research to give therapists the theoretical framework to orient the treatment and maintain psychic equilibrium and safety during times of arousing and destabilizing affect and relational scenarios. Compelling clinical narratives bring the reader into the consulting room and show how the therapist may forge deep emotional connection within a bounded therapeutic relationship that relies upon mutual influence and self-revelation and opens up relational space to ultimately rearrange a patient's experience of self and other.

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