Between Therapist and Client The New Relationship

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 Why Study the Relationship? 1 Five Propositions 4 A Short History of the Relationship 5 From Dilemma to Dialectic 19 2 The Discovery of Transference: Sigmund Freud 21 Breuer and Bertha: The Discovery of Transference 23 The Theory of Templates 24 The Repetition Compulsion 25Transference 27 3 The Influence of the Humanists: Carl Rogers 37 Rogers’ Great Influence 38 A Therapy of Love 39 The Three Attributes as Continua 47 The Implications of Rogers’ Theory 48 Rogers’ Optimal Therapy 51 4 A Re-experiencing Therapy: Merton Gill 53 What About Therapy Is Therapeutic? 53 Conditions for Therapeutic Re-experiencing 58 A New Importance Seen in Transference 60 The Inevitability of Resistance 61 Decoding the Transference 62 Liberating the Therapist’s Warmth and Spontaneity 66 The Place of Remembering 72 Interpreting Resistance to the Recognition of Transference 74 The Therapist’s Contribution to the Client’s Experience 79 Validating the Client’s Perception and Interpretation 81 The Therapeutic Relationship 82 5 The Meeting of Psychoanalysis and Humanism: Heinz Kohut 87 The Beginnings 89 Kohut’s Two Questions 90 The Theoretical Issue 90 The Issue of Therapeutic Technique 98 The Liberated Therapis 122 6 Countertransference 125 Two Hidden Dramas 127 Sources of Countertransference 129 Obstructive and Useful Countertransference 131 The Therapist’s Difficulties 142 The Need for Vigilance 143 7 The Therapist’s Dilemmas 145 The Conservative-to-Radical Continuum 146 Self-Disclosure: Too Little or Too Much? 148 Disclosing Feelings 150 Failures of Empathy 157 Intersubjectivity 158 Discarding the Therapist Mask 1638 The New Relationship 165 An Integration 166 Increasing the Client’s Awareness of the Relationship 169 Attending to the Selfobject Transferences 173 Helping the Client Learn About the Power of the Past 173 Therapy as an Intersubjective Situation 174 The Question of Diagnosis 174 And When the Therapy Must Be Brief? 176 In the Consulting Room 177.