1st Edition

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

By Sasha Brookes Copyright 2000
    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is about the therapist's professional matrix, both visible and invisible. It is about how clinicians manage the web of professional connections that inform, control, bother and console us whilst we struggle with our client's inner world.

    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

    Biography

    Brookes, Sasha