The Therapeutic Relationship in Systemic Therapy

Brings the issue of the therapeutic relationship in family systems therapy into focus, by examing the relationships between the client family as a system, and the use of self in therapy.

Carmel Flaskas, Amaryll Perlesz

Editors' Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- New Explorations-Mainly Theory -- Leaving well alone: a systemic perspective on the therapeutic relationship -- Understanding the therapeutic relationship: using psychoanalytic ideas in the systemic context -- Empathy and the therapeutic relationship in systemic-oriented therapies: a historical and clinical overview -- Embedded and embodied in the therapeutic relationship: understanding the therapist's use of self systemically -- To embrace paradox (once more, with feeling): a commentary on narrative/conversational therapies and the therapeutic relationship -- Discussion Paper I -- New Explorations-Mainly Practice -- The therapeutic moment: a double-sided drama -- A systemic therapy unravelled: in through the out door -- From both sides now: the therapeutic relationship from the viewpoint of therapist and client -- Cross-purposes: relationship patterns in public welfare -- Personal relationships in systemic supervision -- Discussion Paper II