The concept of the real or personal relationship between client and therapist has existed since the earliest days of psychotherapy. Yet the real relationship--with its twin components of genuineness (the intent to avoid deception, including self-deception) and realism (perceivin…
In Building Bridges, Stuart A. Pizer gives much-needed recognition to the central role of negotiation in the analytic relationship and in the therapeutic process. Building on a Winnicottian perspective that comprehends paradox as the condition for preserving an intrapsychic and …
"Living Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Practice represents a decade of work from one of today's leading psychoanalysts. Michael Parsons brings to life clinical psychoanalysis and its theoretical foundations, offering new developments in analytic theory and vivid examples of work…
With detailed clinical examples Busch show us when and how to intervene to help increase patient autonomy and self-reflective abilities. The method presented can be integrated into clinical practice whatever the theoretical orientation or level of experience.