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