Main description:

Designed specifically for the needs of trainees and newly-qualified therapists, Relational Integrative Psychotherapy outlines a form of therapy that prioritizes the client and allows for diverse techniques to be integrated within a strong therapeutic relationship. * Provides an evidence-based introduction to the processes and theory of relational integrative psychotherapy in practice * Presents innovative ideas that draw from a variety of traditions, including cognitive, existential-phenomenological, gestalt, psychoanalytic, systems theory, and transactional analysis * Includes case studies, footnotes, theory into practice boxes, and discussion of competing and complementary theoretical frameworks * Written by an internationally acclaimed speaker and author who is also an active practitioner of relational integrative psychotherapy

Contents:

Foreword by Ken Evans ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii 1 What is Relational Integrative Psychotherapy? 1 Part I Being and Doing Processes 13 2 Meeting and Contracting 15 3 Engaging the Therapeutic Process 30 4 Empathising and Attuning 46 5 Holding, Containing and Boundarying 59 6 Resourcing: Nurturing Skills and Mobilising Coping Strategies 76 7 Intuiting, Imagining and Interpreting 88 8 Challenging 104 9 Integrating 120 10 Ending 136 Part II Theory Applied to Practice 149 11 Cognitively Orientated Therapy 151 12 Existential Phenomenology: Theory and Therapy 167 13 Gestalt Theory and Therapy 183 14 Relational Psychoanalytic Theory in Practice 198 15 Systemic Theory and Therapy 212 16 Transactional Analysis 226 Postscript 241 References 243 Index 255