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Stephen Howard’s THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE THERAPIST: Rage, Fear, Desire, Loss and Love in the Psychotherapy Relationship has received praise from graduate students and experienced therapists alike.
The writing and teaching about psychotherapy today is, on the whole, procedural, prescriptive and technique-oriented. Therapists hunger for personal and humanistic ways of thinking about our work. This book embodies a non-doctrinal approach based on the premise that psychotherapy is no less than an intimate human relationship in which the person and experience of the therapist becomes the crucial element in the healing.
We focus on the unique and intimate experience of the therapeutic connection, and on the significance of the therapist as an individual with needs, motives, and a life to live. These are seen as key to this remarkable bond and the decisive presence of the therapist as the agent of change.
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CONTENTS
PART I: HEART AND SOUL
1. Psychotherapy as Relationship
Relationship and Experience
Radical Relatedness
The Relational Imperative
The Heart and Soul of the Therapist
The Unconscious
2. The Heart and Soul of the Therapist
The Therapist as Agent and Resource
Transference, Countertransference and Experience
The Care of the Therapist
Supervision
3. How Psychotherapy Heals
Counseling and Psychotherapy
What Doesn’t Work
Past Tense
Present Tense
Future Tense: Decision/Creation
4. Psychotherapy as an Act of Love
Acts of Loving
Love in Psychotherapy
The Practice of Loving
Psychotherapy as Parental Love
5. On the Journey
Acceptance
Technique
Interpretation
Resistance
Boundaries and Limits
Endings
6. Landmarks
Show Up
Pay Attention
Tell the Truth
Don’t Get Attached to the Outcome
7. Don’t Just Do Something… Sit There!
Presence
“Here I Am”
Distractions
Being in the World
Making the Gods Laugh
8. Pitfalls
Traps and Pitfalls: It’s About Us!
Therapist transparency
PART II: JOURNEY MAPS
9. Classical Considerations
Psychological Theory
Diagnosis in the Real World
About “Crazy”
The Art and the Science
10. Psychotherapy and Neuroscience
Mind and Brain
Better Living through Chemistry?
The Therapist as Advocate
Ethical Considerations
The Politics of Medication
11. The Intimate Bonds: Families and Couples
Part I: Therapy with Couples
What is Marriage?
Same-Sex Marriage?
A Framework: Five Relational Tasks for Couples
Binocular Family Vision
The Therapist with Couples
Differences
Balancing the Boat
Managing Conflict
Part II: Family Therapy
What is Family?
The Relational Ground of Family Therapy
The Therapist with Families
12. Alternate Routes
Group Therapy
Brief Psychotherapy
Media Gurus
Self-Help
Support Groups
Ideological Counseling
Co-therapy
13. Perennial Concerns
Suicide
Anger
Violence
Grief
The Unlikable Client
Addiction
Thinking about Sex
Sex and the Psychotherapist
Boredom
Shame and Guilt
The Treatment Plan
Money
Complex Relationships
Saving the World
Defining Our Profession
Miscellania
14. Psychotherapy and the Spirit
Spirituality and Psychotherapy?
The Language of the Dialogue
Spirit and Psyche
Religion and Spirit
Faith and Psychotherapy
Religion and Science
Spirit in Psychotherapy: Connection
Spirit in Psychotherapy: Treading Sacred Ground
15. The Ethics of Relationship
The Modern Quandary
Ethical Sources
Conflicting Priorities
Temptation
The Ethics of Intimacy
Appendix: Heart and Soul in a Nutshell
