Essays on Integrative Psychotherapy: Developmental and Relational Perspectives
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : October 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 248
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Forthcoming - Catalogue No : 98170
- ISBN 13 : 9781041040705
- ISBN 10 : 1041040709
Also by Richard G. Erskine
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This book is a distinctive collection of essays on the theory and methods of a developmentally-based, relationally-focused integrative psychotherapy.
In an easy-to-read style, Richard Erskine elaborates on a relationally-focused psychotherapy for acute and cumulative neglect, dissociation, alcoholism, obsession, prolonged grief, as well as psychotherapy with couples. Detailed examples of actual psychotherapy sessions illustrate the therapeutic methods of both phenomenological and developmental inquiry as well as the significance of the psychotherapist's interpersonal involvement through acknowledgment, validation, normalization, and presence. Each chapter takes the reader into further depths of understanding the complexities of an in-depth psychotherapy. Erskine writes from the heart while drawing from over fifty years as a psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer.
Essays on Integrative Psychotherapy vividly illustrates the interpsychic struggle of clients who engage in the schizoid process of relational withdrawal and live in loneliness, and will be essential reading for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in practice and in training.
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Richard Erskine’s book blends theory and practice in a comprehensive and complementary way. It is an excellent guide for those who want to understand and practice relational-focused integrative psychotherapy. You will find in every paragraph of this book a creative synthesis of knowledge and method, an inspiring resource for all psychotherapists.
Dr. Şafak Ebru Toksoy, Istanbul Bilgi University, Institute of Graduate Programs: Trauma and Disaster Mental Health
This book is a treasure to help psychotherapists understand clients unconscious process and non-verbal communication. Richard Erskine skilfully demonstrates the theory and practice of a relationally-focused and developmentally-based psychotherapy that facilitates the integration of the fragmented parts of the self. This book is a must read to every psychotherapist, from beginners to the very experienced ones.
Ruth Birkebaek, MD, psychotherapist, supervisor, and international trainer, London, UK
Each chapter provides a richly coloured tapestry of Integrative Psychotherapy. The presentation of client material helps to give the reader a vibrant image of how in-depth psychotherapy looks in practice. This book is a wonderful, essential creation, beautifully crafted, with many practical ideas and concepts interwoven and interconnected.
Sally Openshaw, President, International Integrative Psychotherapy Association (IIPA); UKCP Registered Psychotherapist; COSRT Accredited Sexual and Relational Therapist and Supervisor
Richard Erskine is a much-respected innovator and developer of integrative psychotherapy, well known for his writings and teaching on Inquiry, Attunement, and Involvement in the therapeutic relationship. The various chapters in this volume offer vivid case vignettes that provide useful examples of the methodology involved in conducting in-depth psychotherapy. In addition to the chapters addressing individual psychotherapy, there are chapters focusing on couple as well as group therapy, and supervision. This book is an ideal resource for those who wish to gain a deeper understanding of a developmentally-based, relationally-focused integrative psychotherapy.
Ray Little, author of several articles and book chapters on the theory and methods of psychotherapy, Edinburgh, Scotland
Table of Contents
1. Stimulus, Structure, and Relationship
2. Trauma, Dissociation, and a Reparative Relationship
3. Wayne: The Emptiness of the Unloved Child
4. Child Development in Integrative Psychotherapy
5. Contributions of Gestalt Therapy
6. An Integrative Psychotherapy of Obsession
7. Presence and Involvement
8. Relational Withdrawal, Internal Criticism, Social Façade
9. Psychotherapy of Relational Withdrawal
10. The Truth Shall Set You Free
11. Saying an Honest “Goodbye”
12. Relational Group Process
13. Contact and Relational Needs in Couple Therapy
14. Reflections on Supervision in Integrative Psychotherapy
15. Compassion, Hope, and Forgiveness
16. The Psychotherapist’s Myths, Dreams, and Realities
About the Author(s)
Richard G. Erskine, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and licensed psychoanalyst. He is the Training Director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City and conducts seminars, workshops and training programs in the United States and internationally. He is also a certified clinical transactional analyst and a licensed psychoanalyst who has specialized in psychoanalytic self-psychology and object-relations theory. Richard has developed Integrative Psychotherapy, a theory and set of methods that emphasizes affective, cognitive, behavioral and physiological integration. His books include Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in-Relationship (with Jan Moursund and Rebecca Trautmann), Integrative Psychotherapy: The Art and Science of Relationship (with Jan Moursund), and Integrative Psychotherapy in Action.
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