Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence : Concepts and Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy / Richard G. Erskine.

Includes bibliographies and index.

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION Philosophical principles of integrative psychotherapy; CHAPTER ONE Integrative psychotherapy: theory, process, and relationship; CHAPTER TWO A therapy of contact-in-relationship; CHAPTER THREE Attunement and involvement: therapeutic responses to relational needs; CHAPTER FOUR Psychotherapy of unconscious experience; CHAPTER FIVE Life scripts and attachment patterns: theoretical integration and therapeutic involvement; CHAPTER SIX Life scripts: unconscious relational patterns and psychotherapeutic involvement.

CHAPTER SEVENThe script system: an unconscious organization of experienceCHAPTER EIGHT Psychological functions of life scripts; CHAPTER NINE Integrating expressive methods in a relational psychotherapy; CHAPTER TEN Bonding in relationship: a solution to violence?; CHAPTER ELEVEN A Gestalt therapy approach to shame and self-righteousness: theory and methods; CHAPTER TWELVE The schizoid process; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Early affect-confusion: the "borderline" between despair and rage; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Balancing on the "borderline" of early affect-confusion.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Relational healing of early affect-confusionCHAPTER SIXTEEN Introjection, psychic presence, and Parent ego states: considerations for psychotherapy; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Resolving intrapsychic conflict: psychotherapy of Parent ego states; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN What do you say before you say goodbye? Psychotherapy of grief; CHAPTER NINETEEN Nonverbal stories: the body in psychotherapy; CHAPTER TWENTY Narcissism or the therapist's error?; REFERENCES; INDEX.

The introduction and the twenty-one chapters in this book reflect the ongoing development and refinement of Relational and Integrative Psychotherapy. Each chapter amalgamates ideas from several theoretical frame works: Client-Centred Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology, as well as inter-subjective and co-creative perspectives. The theory of 'Life Script' serves as a unifying theme to elaborate the concepts of unconscious experience, attachment and relational patterns, the essentialness of contact-in-relationship, and.

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