Therapist and Client: A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy

Therapist and Client: A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy provides a guide to the fundamental interpersonal elements of the therapeutic relationship that make it the most effective factor in therapy.

• Presents the fundamental interpersonal elements that make the therapeutic relationship the most effective factor in psychotherapy
• Explores and integrates a range of approaches from various schools, from psychoanalysis to body-oriented psychotherapy and humanistic psychotherapies
• Offers clear and practical explanations of the intersubjective aspects of therapy
• Demonstrates the pivotal need to work in the present moment in order to effect change and tailor therapy to the client
• Provides detailed case studies and numerous practical applications of infant research and the unified body-mind perspective increasingly revealed by neuroscience

Author: Patrick Nolan
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 05/07/2012
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780470019535

About the Author
Patrick Nolan is a Psychotherapist and the Director of the Irish Institute for Integrated Psychotherapy. He is co-author of Object Relations and Integrative Psychotherapy: Tradition and Innovation in Theory and Practice (2002) and has written about integrative, psychoanalytic and body psychotherapy in numerous publications.