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In Between Therapist and Client, Michael Kahn explores what is perhaps the most important aspect of therapy -- the therapist-client relationship. As he traces the history of the clinical relationship from Freud to the present, Kahn shows how the enmity between the humanists and the psychoanalysts limited their therapeutic effectiveness -- and how their recent reconciliation has opened up exciting new possibilities for the way therapists relate to clients, pointing to a promising new period in the history of psychotherapy. Book jacket.

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• Preface (p. xi)
• 1 Why Study the Relationship? (p. 1)
• Five Propositions (p. 4)
• A Short History of the Relationship (p. 5)
• From Dilemma to Dialectic (p. 19)
• 2 The Discovery of Transference: Sigmund Freud (p. 21)
• Breuer and Bertha: The Discovery of Transference (p. 23)
• The Theory of Templates (p. 24)
• The Repetition Compulsion (p. 25)
• Transference (p. 27)
• 3 The Influence of the Humanists: Carl Rogers (p. 37)
• Rogers' Great Influence (p. 38)
• A Therapy of Love (p. 39)
• The Three Attributes as Continua (p. 47)
• The Implications of Rogers' Theory (p. 48)
• Rogers' Optimal Therapy (p. 51)
• 4 A Re-experiencing Therapy: Merton Gill (p. 53)
• What About Therapy Is Therapeutic? (p. 53)
• Conditions for Therapeutic Re-experiencing (p. 58)
• A New Importance Seen in Transference (p. 60)
• The Inevitability of Resistance (p. 61)
• Decoding the Transference (p. 62)
• Liberating the Therapist's Warmth and Spontaneity (p. 66)
• The Place of Remembering (p. 72)
• Interpreting Resistance to the Recognition of Transference (p. 74)
• The Therapist's Contribution to the Client's Experience (p. 79)
• Validating the Client's Perception and Interpretation (p. 81)
• The Therapeutic Relationship (p. 82)
• 5 The Meeting of Psychoanalysis and Humanism: Heinz Kohut (p. 87)
• The Beginnings (p. 89)
• Kohut's Two Questions (p. 90)
• The Theoretical Issue (p. 90)
• The Issue of Therapeutic Technique (p. 98)
• The Liberated Therapist (p. 122)
• 6 Countertransference (p. 125)
• Two Hidden Dramas (p. 127)
• Sources of Countertransference (p. 129)
• Obstructive and Useful Countertransference (p. 131)
• The Therapist's Difficulties (p. 142)
• The Need for Vigilance (p. 143)
• 7 The Therapist's Dilemmas (p. 145)
• The Conservative-to-Radical Continuum (p. 146)
• Self-Disclosure: Too Little or Too Much? (p. 148)
• Disclosing Feelings (p. 150)
• Failures of Empathy (p. 157)
• Intersubjectivity (p. 158)
• Discarding the Therapist Mask (p. 163)
• 8 The New Relationship (p. 165)
• An Integration (p. 166)
• Increasing the Client's Awareness of the Relationship (p. 169)
• Attending to the Selfobject Transferences (p. 173)
• Helping the Client Learn About the Power of the Past (p. 173)
• Therapy as an Intersubjective Situation (p. 174)
• The Question of Diagnosis (p. 174)
• And When the Therapy Must Be Brief? (p. 176)
• In the Consulting Room (p. 177)
• Suggested Readings (p. 179)
• Notes (p. 183)
• Index (p. 191)

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