Full Description
The papers in this book focus on many different aspects of the therapeutic relationship, including the self of the therapist, working cross-culturally and with language difference, impasse, risk taking, the place of research, and the influence of theory. Clinical examples illustrate successful as well as less succssful outcomes in therapy, and t
Contents
Series Editors' Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Relational reflexivity: a tool for socially constructing therapeutic relationships -- From system to psyche -- "Alice and Alice not through the looking glass": therapeutic transparency and the therapeutic and supervisory relationship -- Working with men who use violence and control -- Not getting lost in translation: establishing a working alliance with co-workers and interpreters -- Intercultural: where the systemic meets the psychoanalytic in the therapeutic relationship -- Before and beyond words: embodiment and intercultural therapeutic relationships in family therapy -- Sticky situations, therapy mess: on impasse and the therapist's position -- Systems of the heart: evoking the feeling self in family therapy -- Shame and the therapeutic relationship -- Relational risk-taking and the therapeutic relationship -- Adopting a research lens in family therapy: a means to therapeutic collaboration -- Research on the therapeutic alliance in family therapy
