Textbook Background
The fictitious name of the character in the RT case study
Who is Jane?
A term to describe Relational therapy by nature.
What is Performative?
The goal of classic psychoanalytic treatment as stated in medical terms.
What is "to cure a patient of the symptoms of neurotic illness?"
In fundamental terms, Relational Therapy is about these 2 ideas...
What is Self-with-Other? and What is Self-with-Other in Action
The title for this section is Relational Therapy and its Contexts
What is Chapter 1?
According to Pat DeYoung, the growing movement of RT is a result of one of these reasons
What is a powerful general theory of psychotherapy? Or, What is a strong foundation for various therapies? Or, What is a flexible alternative to goal-oriented, expert-driven models of psychotherapy?
This type of Therapy uses symbols, dreams, and images and according to DeYoung is missing the world of countless interactive experiences of self-with-other that teach us everything we know about what it is to be human.
What is Jungian Therapy
In the case study of Jane, other therapists would ponder 'What is wrong WITH Jane?" Relational Therapists would ponder this question
'What is wrong FOR Jane?'
The Author of the textbook, Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer, 2nd ed.,
What is Patricia A. DeYoung?
DeYoung cautions to be collaborative with a client and NOT be this type of therapist?
What is an expert observing client from the outside?
A non medical model of helping people who suffer psychological distress. This therapy suggests clients need not a cure, but a selfless kind of love to grow into one's full human potential
What is Humanist Therapy?
In Relational Therapy, these 3 different kinds of therapies are described in negative terms.
What is Medical, individualistic and rationalistic?
The name of the person in the Dedication of Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer, 2nd ed.,
What is Mary B. Greey?
Two streams of contemporary relational psychoanalytic theory
What is IR Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology?
In this medical model, the doctor interprets the real meaning of the client's instinctual, irrational mental processes as they are revealed in dreams and in transference feelings and fantasies
What is Freudian Therapy?
We are all creatures of familial, social, and political contexts, and we are formed by our interactions with others and by our internalized knowledge of expectations and responses.
What is the Relational Principle?
A theory that is immediately applicable to everyday practice, from opening sessions through intensive engagement to termination.
What is Relational Psychotherapy: A Primer, 2nd edition?
A heart warming term when the therapist becomes part of the ecology of the relational systems
What is The Shared Journey?
This therapy receives high harks from relational therapists for understanding individuals in contexts of interdependence and understanding that the client's performance story determines the path of one's life, self-image and emotional well-being.
What is Narrative therapy?
The patterns of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, whether healthy or unhealthy, are directly related to the patterns of our interpersonal relationships
What is the central idea of Relational Psychotherapy?