What’s behind the transforming power of dialogue?
**Exploring the Power of Dialogue** Dialogue extends beyond mere verbal communication; it's a profound act of connection. At the core of genuine dialogue lies the "I-Thou" relationship. Could this...
Psychotherapeutic Alliance
Unconscious feelings and countertransference within the Therapeutic Alliance
To illustrate how a therapist’s emotions towards client, though brought to awareness and allowed to be revealed, can also be mistaken for authentic reaction to the client’s process, a mentor of mine,...
The change moments in psychotherapeutic practice
The challenge with humanistic psychotherapy today is to realize the philosophical concepts and theory put into practice. How do we see an [I-thou moment...
Healing through dialogue is an eminently hermeneutical phenomenon indeed
> **“Healing through dialogue is an eminently hermeneutical phenomenon indeed.” ** > **Gadamer, quoted in Staemmler (2009, p. 65). ** The psychotherapeutic alliance is a dialogue which is action....
Empathy and Buber’s I-thou contact
I do not fully agree with Schmid’s implication that empathy is about “try(ing) to understand, as exactly as possible, the accurate meaning of what goes on inside another person in the very moment”....
What lies within the therapist-client alliance in Psychotherapy?
The “self” is not a singular, isolated entity, but a function of the person’s life history and experience from living with others through social interactions from which the individual derives their...
Reich’s Case Examples: Process vs. content in the psychotherapeutic dialogue
Wilhelm Reich, in Character Analysis (1945/1984), illustrates the importance of working on the process of the therapeutic relationship – i.e. what is going on between therapist and client— before...
Power Differences in the Psychotherapeutic Alliance
Although there are different nuances within different psychotherapeutic approaches, the difference in attitude towards the client-therapist power difference can be divided into two very broad groups—...
Breuer & Freud’s pioneering concept of the psychotherapeutic alliance
Psychotherapy in practice differs from many other areas of medicine, particularly with regard to the patient-therapist relationship. It has been observed that Breuer’s work documented by Freud...
Freud and the here-and-now in the therapeutic alliance
The phenomenon of the present moment often termed the here-and-now is the centre of focus in the practice of other psychotherapeutic schools, and in particular gestalt therapy. Referencing back to...
The Psychotherapeutic Alliance and Change: A discussion on the healing aspects in a psychotherapeutic relationship
## Abstract This thesis addresses the complicated nature of the psychotherapeutic alliance, by attempting to deconstruct what is already in practice. In piecing out the different aspects of the...
Analyzing a Gestalt Psychotherapy Session Using the Helbig Method of Dialogue Analysis (HELDA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI9CLJlZCz8 ## Abstract How can we visualize the evolving psychotherapeutic alliance in dialogue? The psychotherapeutic dialogue is an important source of data for...