Relating in Psychotherapy: The Application of a New Theory

by John Birtchnell

Overview

Explains how the relevance of Birtchnell's theory as a basis for the science of relating relates to the practice of psychotherapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138463103
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/13/2017
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

JOHN BIRTCHNELL is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London. Involved in full-time psychiatric research since 1967, Dr. Birtchnell has edited the British Jourbanal of Medical Psychology as well as numerous jourbanal articles and a companion volume How Humans Relate: A New Interpersonal Theory (Praeger, 1993).

Table of Contents

Preface
Relating and Its Relevance for Psychotherapy
The Inner Brain and the Outer Brain
The Proximity Axis in Relating
The Proximity Axis in Psychotherapy
The Power Axis in Relating
The Power Axis in Psychotherapy
Interrelating
Interrelating in Psychotherapy
Measuring Relating and Interrelating in Psychotherapy
The Emergence of a New Approach to Psychotherapy
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

The author explains the application of the theory presented in his previous work . The crux of the theory is that people relate to others through a knowledge of the power asymmetry in relationships. Reducing relating down to four basic activities (becoming closer or distant and being upper or lower), the author discusses how strategies based upon these activities can be used to treat a variety of disorders. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

'Birtchnell has developed instruments for measuring incompetence in relating [ ] and gives instances of both research and clinical use of these in a lucid manner that draws the reader like a magnet.' - Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal

'I commend this book to you. The theory cuts across all forms (schools) of therapy, and is a way of describing each school in terms of relating, in both the client and the therapist ... I hope it will be widely read.' - Dale Mathers, Member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology

'For individual, group, couple and family therapists, Relating in Psychotherapy does an excellent job of providing a theory that helps in thinking about two important aspects of human relating (proximity and power), measuring difficulty in these areas, and providing a psychotherapeutic approach that is valid in many formats and the effect of which is measurable.' - Jill Savege Scharff, International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, Washington

'This book is easy to read, well structured, and demonstrates the author's wide knowledge of different psychotherapies The author should be congratulated for his painstaking work in developing a theory, putting it into practice, and producing meaningful measurement. This is a formidable attempt to produce an evidence-based psychotherapy.' - Anthony W. Bateman, Secretary of the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

'Birtchnell has developed instruments for measuring incompetence in relating [ ] and gives instances of both research and clinical use of these in a lucid manner that draws the reader like a magnet.' - Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal

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