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This work explores the therapeutic relationship in the psychological therapies. It will be an important resource book for practitioners including counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, trainers and trainees and all those who work with people in therapeutic contexts. This book reviews the importance of the therapeutic relationship within the key modalities of Person-Centred, Psychodynamic, Existential, Gestalt, TA, CBT, Relational and Transpersonal approaches. The place of power and oppression and the social context of the relationship in therapy are further reviewed. Authors examine what the research really tells us about outcomes in therapy and explores the place of research for the psychological therapies. In a series of commissioned chapters significant themes are presented which enable the reader to consider their impact on therapeutic practice. These include: touch, a Japanese perspective, spirituality, I- Thou relatedness and the contribution of Buber, the creative therapies and working with groups. In this title, the reader is invited to consider their own modality, their practice and their understanding of what really works in therapy.
1. The Therapeutic Relationship: Background and context Stephen Paul and Sheila Haugh
2. The Relationship, not the Therapy? What the research tells us Stephen Paul and Sheila Haugh
3. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Pam Howard
4. A Person-Centred Perspective Sheila Haugh
5. The Existential Approach Ernesto Spinelli
6. Gestalt Therapy Toni Gilligan
7. Transactional Analysis: A diversity of relationships Jane Walford and Robin Walford
8. Cognitive Behavioural Dimensions of the Therapeutic Relationship Mike Thomas
9. The Relational Approach Geoff Pelham
10. Transpersonal Dimensions of the Therapeutic Relationship John Shiers and Stephen Paul
11. The Therapeutic Relationship: A research inquiry Jerold D. Bozarth and Noriko Motomasa
12. In and Out of the Mainstream: Therapy in its social and political context Nick Totton
13. A Japanese Perspective Yukishige Nakata
14. Interconnections between Privilege and Oppression Kay McFarlane
15. The Ground of our Relating: Martin Buber's I and Thou Richard Worsley
16. Spiritual Dimensions William West
17. Touch and the Therapeutic Relationship: Shifting a paradigm Andrea Uphoff
18. The Therapeutic Relationship in Creative Arts Psychotherapy Jenny Stacey
19. The Relationship in Group Therapy Stephen Paul
20. Conclusion: Is the Relationship the therapy? Sheila Haugh and Stephen Paul
Contributors
Index
This text will be of immense value to students, lecturers and practitioners -- a valuable resource to those exploring different theoretical models in psychotherapy. The contributors provide clear expositions of their original philosophic and clinical hypotheses and how these are blended into contemporary relational practice. Colin Lago, author of The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy (OUP, 2011)
As therapy moves from psychological tool to a greater focus on the nature and quality of the relationship itself, this book sums up and critically reflects on the different views of the therapeutic relationship. It offers new perspectives that empower the practitioner and illuminate theory, based in reflective practice. This is essential reading for therapists and teachers of therapy alike. Simon Robinson, Professor of Applied and Professional Ethics, Leeds Metropolitan University
Sheila Haugh is a client-centred therapist, supervisor, and trainer with 25 years experience. She is a UK Council for Psychotherapy Registered Psychotherapist and teaches a Masters level programme in Contemporary Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Applications. She is a former Convenor for the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA) and a former board member of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies (WAPECP). The book Learning and Being in Person-Centred Counselling by Tony Merry has inspired and guided thousands of counselling students since it was first published in 1999. In 2020 the third edition was updated by Sheila including a new chapter on recent developments in Person-Centred counselling.
Stephen Paul recently retired as Director of the Centre for Psychological Therapies at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is a psychotherapist with over 30 years of practitioner experience and was previously Head of a therapeutic school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. He has studied extensively in the areas of counselling, psychotherapy, spirituality and coaching. He has three published books on the therapeutic relationship. Currently he practises part-time as a therapist, supervisor and coach and leads training for staff and students in a number of Universities.
