Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence: Concepts and Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy

Author(s) : Richard G. Erskine

Relational Patterns, Therapeutic Presence: Concepts and Practice of Integrative Psychotherapy

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 402
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98174
  • ISBN 13 : 9781041037590
  • ISBN 10 : 1041037597

Table of Contents


Prelude to the Classic Edition
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Foreword by Joshua Zavin
Preface

Introduction: Philosophical Principles of Integrative Psychotherapy

1. Integrative Psychotherapy: Theory, Process, and Relationship
2. A Therapy of Contact-In-Relationship
3. Attunement and Involvement: Therapeutic Responses to Relational Needs
4. Psychotherapy of Unconscious Experience
5. Life Scripts and Attachment Patterns: Theoretical Integration and Therapeutic Involvement
6. Life Scripts: Unconscious Relational Patterns and Psychotherapeutic Involvement
7. The Script System: An Unconscious Organization of Experience
8. Psychological Functions of Life Scripts
9. Integrating Expressive Methods in a Relational Psychotherapy
10. Bonding in Relationship: A Solution to Violence?
11. A Gestalt Therapy Approach to Shame and Self-Righteousness: Theory and Methods
12. The Schizoid Process
13. Early Affect-Confusion: The “Borderline” Between Despair and Rage
14. Balancing on the “Borderline” of Early Affect-Confusion
15. Relational Healing of Early Affect-Confusion
16. Introjection, Psychic Presence, and Parent Ego States: Considerations for Psychotherapy
17. Resolving Intrapsychic Conflict: Psychotherapy of Parent Ego States
18. What Do You Say Before You Say Goodbye? Psychotherapy of Grief
19. Nonverbal Stories: The Body in Psychotherapy
20. Narcissism or the Therapist’s Error?

References
Index

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