Between Therapist and Client

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I missed mentioning and describing all of the four major psychoanalytic paradigms: drive theory, ego psychology, object relations, and self psychology . If you read it as a client, it will give you great insight to how you can improve your relationship with your therapist and get the most out of your sessions. The results of this study may not give a picture of total symptom reduction at the “close” of therapy, but they do give a clear idea of the speed and efficiency with which symptom reduction may occur as a function of the therapist–client modality match. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Great overview of Freud, Gill, and Kohut with an eye toward the practical implications within a practice.

In a way I felt as if the author reconciles the different views and takes out the most of each view.Such more detailed analyses and explorations may provide even more understanding of the phenomenon of therapist–client matching.

Clients were also informed that participation in this study would not alter the course or form of treatment that they would receive. A professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he presently maintains a private practice and also trains psychotherapists as the director of a counseling center at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. However, this study did not follow therapy process, only outcome, and thus this conclusion cannot be drawn from the results of this study. Consistent with Cronbach and Glesser, 38 therapist–client difference values were computed by using SPI modality scores corrected for elevation and scatter (D″ 2), converting them essentially to z-scores. It isn't always the problems of the client creating friction and I think therapists often forget that.

Otherwise, it has some valuable insights, particularly on the subject of countertransference and the importance of the therapist remaining mindful of what they're bringing to the relationship. Strong support for this position comes from studies of length of psychotherapy as a function of client–therapist similarity. For years, two major schools of thought have strongly disagreed about what the nature of that relationship should be. Among the dimensions of compatibility discussed by Beutler and Clarkin are demographics, interpersonal response patterns, personal beliefs, and attributions.

That these dropout rates could not be so predicted was a surprising finding and is not easily explainable.For education to be effective, the “student” must be presented with some information that is new or that is presented in a different way.