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The Art and Science of Relationship: The Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy

Author(s) : Richard G. Erskine, Author(s) : Janet P. Moursund

Table of Contents

About the authors
Preface
Introduction to the reissue

PART I: Theoretical Foundations

CHAPTER 1: Development of Integrative Psychotherapy
Roots and Beyond
Modern Psychotherapies
Principles of Relationship-Focused Integrative Psychotherapy
Relationship
Summary

CHAPTER 2: Script, Repression, and Contact Distortion
Schemas and Script
The Function of Script
Maintaining the Script System
The Consequences of Script, Repression, and Contact Disruption
The Widening Spiral
Summary

CHAPTER 3: Relationship and Human Development
The Early Experience of Relationship
The Concept of Relational Needs
Development and Healthy Relationships
Development and Unhealthy Relationships
Trauma and Its Consequences
Summary

PART II: Therapeutic Interventions

CHAPTER 4: Healing the Hurts
A Set of Interlocking Systems
The Role of Relationship in the Healing Process
Relationship and the Facets of Growth and Change
Accessibility
Summary

CHAPTER 5: Creating a Therapeutic Relationship
Developing Therapeutic Personhood
Symmetry and Asymmetry
Empathy
Summary

CHAPTER 6: Beyond Empathy
Attunement
Inquiry
Involvement
Summary

CHAPTER 7: Beginning the Work
First-Session Tasks
Establishing a Safe Working Environment
The Decision to Work Together
The Therapeutic Contract
Saying Good-Bye
Summary

CHAPTER 8: Moving In
Affect and Awareness
Fear and Anxiety
Resistance and Repression
Accessing
Summary

CHAPTER 9: Therapeutic Interventions
Intervention Guidelines
Interpretation
Enactment and Experiment
Regression
Behavioral Interventions
Summary

CHAPTER 10: A Focus on Relationship
Three Relational Concerns
Transference and Countertransference Revisited
Touch
Therapist Error
The Juxtaposition Response
Shame
The Moment of Meeting
Summary

CHAPTER 11: Termination
Termination Criteria
The Decision to Terminate
Preparing for Termination
Tasks of Termination
Taking New Behaviors Out Into the World
The Last Session
Summary

PART III: The Transcript

CHAPTER 12: The Transcript
Postscript
Transcript Linkage Index
References
Name Index
Subject Index