Principles and Practices of Relational Psychotherapy (Paperback)

Foreword; 1. Invitation; 2. Empirical studies on psychotherapy; 3. The road to the relational perspective; 4. Problems in relating; 5. Theoretical principles; 6. Problems, goals, procedures, and processes: Method or perspective?; 7. Affects, attachment, and mentalizing in the therapeutic relationship; Practice; 8. Support and challenge; 9. Recipes and tools; 10. David; 11. Try to understand who the patient is; 12. Listen for your own thoughts, fantasies, feelings; 13. Stay in the present, be concrete and specific; 14. Be spontaneous, be genuine, talk about your reactions; 15. Be mindful of the affective interplay; 16. Attend to the common potential space; 17. Listen for conflicts, stay in conflicts; 18. Meta-communication; 19. Model mentalizing; 20. See the patient from the outside; 21. See yourself from within; 22. How to develop as a relational psychotherapist