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Perhaps the most important aspect of the therapeutic process is the relationship between therapist and client. For years, two major schools of thought have strongly disagreed about what the nature of that relationship should be. The humanists emphasized warmth and empathy. The psychoanalysts kept a neutral, cool distance. Recently, however, the beginnings of a reconciliation between these traditions have opened new possibilities for the way therapists relate to clients.

In Between Therapist and Client , Michael Kahn shows why this new consensus is promising. Beginning with Freud's discovery of transference, Kahn traces the history of the clinical relationship from Carl Rogers' introduction of humanistic concerns through Merton Gill's theory and technique of transference analysis, to the pioneering work of Heinz Kohut, who has most successfully brought together psychoanalytic and humanistic thought. Using vivid examples from his own practice, Kahn shows how a coherent synthesis of these various approaches leads to the most successful clinical relationships.

Completely updated with greater discussion of ethics and countertransference, the new edition of Between Therapist and Client is essential reading for those in psychotherapy both therapist and client.

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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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