Invisible Matrix: An Exploration of Professional Relationships in the Service of Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781900877275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 230 str.

Sasha Bookes; Pauline Hodson

Opis

The authors use the notion of The Invisibile Matrix to describe the complex web of relationships within which both therapist and patient operate, as psychological field often as formative and unspoken as the unconscious itself.

Does therapy involve only one patient, one therapist and no-one else, or does it involve many people? This book explores the complex web of inter-relationships within which both the therapist and the patient operate. It posits the idea of the -invisible matrix-, a psychological force-field which is often as formative and as yet unspoken as the unconscious itself.

The aim of the book is to demonstrate to therapists and patients how our relationships in the wider world shape our behavior in the consulting room. From a variety of contrasting angles, the contributors all confront the fact that we are much more social than we might like to believe - a notion that has radical implications for the practice of therapy in all its forms.

Spis treści

Foreword -- The Invisible Matrix -- Holding the Boundaries -- The Task of Assessment -- Relationships Cubed: Sharing Patients from an Individual Psychotherapist's Point of View -- Splitting and Sharing in Concurrent Therapies -- Cat's Cradle: Conjoint or Single Sessions in Couple Therapy -- Combined Therapy—A Group Analytic Perspective -- Square Dance: Invisible Matrices in Co-Therapy Couple Therapy -- Working Together: Aspects of a Therapeutic Container at Work -- The Private Public Therapist -- The Supervisor as the Hidden Co-Therapist in Psychotherapy with Couples

O autorze

Brookes, Sasha