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Authors: Don Feasey
ISBN-13: 9781403942043, ISBN-10: 1403942048
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Don Feasey

Don Feasey is with the West Midlands Institute for Psychotherapy, Birmingham, UK.

Book Synopsis

This book explores, through careful examination of theory and practice, what is likely to happen in the therapy room from the first encounter to the final session. It will be of use to therapists and counselors from all backgrounds and essential reading for trainees. This accessible book is an exercise in de-mystification, and will introduce the reader, whether therapist, counselor, or lay-person, to the realities of clinical work in the confidentiality of the therapy room. The book is illustrated throughout by case material, fictionalized in order to protect client confidentiality.

Table of Contents

The essence of therapy : Janice and Craig10
1The first encounter19
2Feelings : transference, counter-transference, gut feeling and sex33
3The rules of the game53
4Money ... for what it's worth71
5Anxiety and resistance in the psychotherapeutic relationship86
6A suitable case for treatment103
7Remembering and forgetting120
8Projection : touch, transference and counter-transference revisited134
9The unconscious : dreams, the imagination and fantasy151
10Reflection166
11Intimacy and the limits of therapy182
12Now what? : the challenge of the end of therapy198

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