Beyond the Therapeutic Relationship

Contents
Foreword



Preface
Acknowledgment
INTRODUCTION
Attending to Therapeutic Catalysts
The Common Factors Hypothesis
The Need for Greater Scientific Grounding
The Need for Integration
Chapter 1. The Therapeutic Relationship: Beyond This Point of Convergence
Toward a Standardized Terminology
Interpersonal Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship
Nonverbal Behavior and the Therapeutic Relationship
Limitations of the Intrapsychic Approach to Psychotherapy Research
Summary and Conclusion
Chapter 2. Universal Variables: Toward a Higher-Order Theory
A Discovery Investigation--Unraveling "What Has Already Occurred"
Narrowing the Research Focus
Developing a Common Framework
The Need for a Scientific Theory
Summary and Conclusion
Chapter 3. Nonverbal Behavior, Information Processing, and Interpersonal Communication in Psychotherapy
An Overview of Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Communication Theory
Nonverbal Therapist Behavior as Nonspecific
Nonverbal Behavioral Research in Psychotherapy
Delineating Psychotherapeutic Variables
The Need for Operationalism in Psychotherapy
The Therapeutic versus Interpersonal Relationship
Facilitative versus Growth-Inhibiting Behaviors
Summary and Conclusion
Chapter 4. Face-to-Face Interaction: The Behavioral, Biological, and Cognitive Relevance of Dominant Eye Contact in Psychotherapy
Eye Contact Research in Psychotherapy
The Significance of Eye Contact in the Therapeutic Relationship
The Significance of Eye Dominance in Psychotherapy
Eye Contact and Information Processing
Summary and Conclusion
Chapter 5. Intensive Experiential Exploration: The Psychobiological Significance of Client Verbalization and Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy
The Self in Psychotherapy
Affect, Catharsis, and Self-Disclosure
Self-Disclosure as Therapeutic
Psychobiological Bases of Therapeutic Self-Disclosure
The Role of the "Other" in Reprocessing of Information
The Psychotherapeutic Implications of Penfield's Work
"Blocks" to Information Processing and Interpersonal Communication
Summary and Conclusion
Chapter 6. The Talking Cure: Language as a Remedy for, and Source of, Neuroses and Incongruence
Linguistics and Psychotherapy
Seeking the Biological Bases of Language and Meaning
Cognitive and Psychobiological Change Through Language and Discourse
Language as a Bridge Between Mind and Brain
The Genesis of Discursive Psychology
Mind, Brain, and the Generation of Consciousness Through Language
Thought and the Formation of the Mind
Mind and the Phenomenon of Therapeutic Growth
Therapeutic Growth versus Mental "Illness"
Language and Discourse as a Remedy for Neuroses and Incongruence
Constructive Language Process, or the "Unconscious"?
Language and the Reconstruction of Personal Reality
Reprocessing Information Through Asymmetric Relationships
Therapeutic Outcome: Facilitating Self-Growth
The Asymmetrical Talking "Cure"
Autonomous Processes: The "Hardware" Underlying the "Software"
Language as a Source of Neuroses and Incongruence
Neural Limitations Underlying Reasoning
Bridging the "Gap" Without the "Black Box"
"Trapped" Within the Self
Anxiety as a Signal for Change
Summary and Conclusion
Chapter 7. Facilitative Therapist Behaviors as a Modus Operandi: Integrative Eclecticism Within Transtheoretical and Common Factors Integration
Scientific Roadblocks
Facilitating the Re-Creation of the Client's "Design"
Toward Unifying the Person
Asymmetry as a Universal Psychotherapeutic Characteristic
Facilitative Face-to-Face Interacti