1st Edition

The Change Process in Psychotherapy During Troubling Times

Edited By Sue Wright Copyright 2022
192 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Change Process in Psychotherapy During Troubling Times invites readers to consider what it is psychotherapists do that leads to change. The book highlights different theoretical approaches, questions old paradigms, and illustrates the change process when working with people facing a range of life challenges such as the survivors of childhood trauma, refugees, and people dealing with... Read more

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Preface

 

1.What leads to change in Psychotherapy? Theory and Research

Richard Davis

 

2."Getting to the Essence": Working towards truth in psychotherapy

Philippa Smethurst

 

3.Moments of Meeting: The sudden, unexpected moments in therapy that often prompt change

Jim Pye

 

4.Holding the Body in Mind in Times of Transition

Tree Staunton

 

5.Therapy, the Body and Time

Philippa Smethurst

 

6.Supporting change and adaptation after traumatic loss

Liz Rolls

 

7.A Change of Time

Judy Ryde

 

8.Living with someone else’s trauma: Extreme events, time, liminality and deep subjectivity

Jeremy Woodcock

 

9.The "something new" that is ‘really’ different": The Temporal Dimension in the change process

Sue Wright

 

10.The change process of the trainee: A necessary rite of passage.

Richard Davis

 

11. Who needs to change? Reflections on the complex relationship between climate change, mental health and the profession of psychotherapy.

Steffi Bednarek

 

12.Change and challenge: Developing clinical fluidity

Sue Wright

Index

Biography

Sue Wright is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer based in the UK. She integrates psychodynamic work, sensorimotor psychotherapy, dance moment therapy, and the Feldenkrais method into her work, with a particular specialism in working with survivors of complex trauma.