Relational Integrative Psychotherapy
Engaging Process and Theory in Practice
Published on 11. December 2015
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-119-08730-4 (ISBN)
Description
Designed specifically for the needs of trainees and newly-qualified therapists, Relational Integrative Psychotherapy outlines a form of therapy that prioritizes the client and allows for diverse techniques to be integrated within a strong therapeutic relationship.
* Provides an evidence-based introduction to the processes and theory of relational integrative psychotherapy in practice
* Presents innovative ideas that draw from a variety of traditions, including cognitive, existential-phenomenological, gestalt, psychoanalytic, systems theory, and transactional analysis
* Includes case studies, footnotes, 'theory into practice' boxes, and discussion of competing and complementary theoretical frameworks
* Written by an internationally acclaimed speaker and author who is also an active practitioner of relational integrative psychotherapy
Reviews / Votes
"Counsellors and psychotherapists alike increasingly seek a holistic approach to practice. Finlay offers us here an inevitably personal approach to integrating several key modalities based on a core belief - which I share - that it is 'the relationship that heals'." (Therapy Today, May 2016)More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-08730-4 (9781119087304)
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
LINDA FINLAY is a relational-centred, existential Integrative Psychotherapist (UKCP registered) in private practice. She has published numerous books, including Phenomenology for Therapists: Researching the Lived World (Wiley, 2011), Relational-centred Research for Psychotherapists: Exploring Meanings and Experience (with Ken Evans, Wiley, 2009) and The Practice of Psychosocial Occupational Theory (3rd edition, 2004). A frequent speaker at conferences and institutions across the UK and abroad, Linda also currently teaches with the Open University.
Content
Foreword by Ken Evans ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
1 What is Relational Integrative Psychotherapy? 1
Part I Being and Doing Processes 13
2 Meeting and Contracting 15
3 Engaging the Therapeutic Process 30
4 Empathising and Attuning 46
5 Holding, Containing and Boundarying 59
6 Resourcing: Nurturing Skills and Mobilising Coping Strategies 76
7 Intuiting, Imagining and Interpreting 88
8 Challenging 104
9 Integrating 120
10 Ending 136
Part II Theory Applied to Practice 149
11 Cognitively Orientated Therapy 151
12 Existential Phenomenology: Theory and Therapy 167
13 Gestalt Theory and Therapy 183
14 Relational Psychoanalytic Theory in Practice 198
15 Systemic Theory and Therapy 212
16 Transactional Analysis 226
Postscript 241
References 243
Index 255