Therapy: Intimacy Between Strangers

ISBN-13: 9781403942043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str.

Don Feasey

Opis

This book explores, through careful examination of theory and practice, what is likely to happen in the therapy room from the first encounter to the final session. It will be of use to therapists and counselors from all backgrounds and essential reading for trainees. This accessible book is an exercise in de-mystification, and will introduce the reader, whether therapist, counselor, or lay-person, to the realities of clinical work in the confidentiality of the therapy room. The book is illustrated throughout by case material, fictionalized in order to protect client confidentiality.

Spis treści

Foreword.- Case Study: Janice and John.- The First Encounter.- Feelings Transference, Countertransference, Gut Feeling and Sex.- The Rules of the Game.- Money For What it's Worth.- Anxiety and Resistance in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship.- A Suitable Case for Treatment.- Remembering and Forgetting.- Projection Touch, Transference and Countertransference Revisited.- The Unconscious Dreams, the Imagination and Fantasy.- Reflection.- Accommodating Intimacy and the Limits of Therapy.- Now What? The Challenge of the Termination of Therapy.- Bibliography.

O autorze

DON FEASEY is a Psychoanalytical Psychotherapist in private practice. He has worked with individuals, couples and groups for 20 years. He was formerly the Principal Sessional Psychotherapist with Salford Health Services and was Principal Lecturer in Education, English and Drama at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the author of several books on good practice in psychotherapy.

Blurb

In this frank and compelling account of psychotherapy today, Feasey focuses on some of the central concepts of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, examining them with a critical and appraising eye. The book is based on 25 years of experience as a therapist and is illustrated throughout with engaging vignettes which bring a sense of drama and reality to a life in therapy.