A Clinical Workbook for Psychotherapists

Cover — Title Page — Copyright Page — Table of Contents — Preface — Part One Understanding unconscious communication — 1. Unconscious communication and madness — 2. How and why messages are encoded — 3. Decoding disguised messages — 4. Analysing the therapist’s interventions — 5. Decoding the material from patients — Part Two Listening and formulating — 6. The elements of listening — 7. Indicators — 8. Identifying the adaptive contexts — 9. Adaptive contexts: manifest representations — 10. Adaptive contexts: derivative representations — 11. Adaptive contexts: known implications — 12. Responses to interventions: encoded perceptions — 13. Responses to interventions: reactions to perceptions — 14. Some precepts of listening — Part Three Intervening and validating — 15. Some precepts of intervening: the nature of interventions — 16. Silence — 17. Interpretations and the play-back of selected derivatives — 18. Managing the ground rules of psychotherapy — 19. Common errors in intervening — Appendix The seven dimensions of the therapeutic interaction — References — Index