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How is the therapeutic relationship talked into being?
Author(s) -
RoyChowdhury Sim
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-6427
pISSN - 0163-4445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2006.00344.x
Subject(s) - therapeutic relationship , psychology , psychotherapist , therapeutic approach , therapeutic effect , social psychology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , medicine , philosophy , surgery , disease , pathology
A review of the place of the therapeutic relationship within systemic approaches to therapy is provided. This serves to contextualize the findings of a research study that subjects therapy sessions to a discursive analysis. The purpose of the analysis is to learn more about the therapeutic relationship through an examination of what actually takes place in sessions. Moments in therapy where therapeutic engagement is stronger and moments when it is weaker are identified and analysed. The discursive contours of a robust therapeutic relationship are highlighted. A theoretical account of the constituents of a stronger therapeutic relationship is constructed from this analysis. But let me tell you something about experience. It outstrips all accounts of it. All ulterior versions. Martin Amis, ExperienceThe weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel not what we ought to say. William Shakespeare, King Lear