1st Edition
Relating in Psychotherapy The Application of a New Theory
By John Birtchnell
Copyright 1999
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
In John Birtchnell's last book How Humans Relate, he proposed a new theory as the basis for a science of relating. Relating in Psychotherapy explains how the relevance of this theory relates to the practice of psychotherapy. The theory cuts across all schools of therapy, and is a way of describing each school in terms of relating in both the client and the therapist. The theory is constructed... Read more
Relating and its Relevance for Psychotherapy. The Inner Brain and The Outer Brain. The Proximity Axis in Relating. The Proximity Axis in Psychotherapy. The Power Axis in Relating. The Power Axis in Psychotherapy. Interrelating. Interrelating in Psychotherapy. Measuring Relating and Interrelating in Psychotherapy. The Emergence of a New Approach to Psychotherapy.
Biography
John Birtchnell is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry and Honorary Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, London. He is the author of How Humans Relate: A New Interpersonal Theory, (Psychology Press, 1996).
'Birtchnell has developed instruments for measuring incompetence in relating [ ] and gives instances of both research and clinical use of these in a lucid manner that draws the reader like a magnet.' - Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal
