"Most therapists, regardless of theoretical approach, intuitively
recognize that their sense of self intimately influences their
work. Using this elemental truth as a launching pad, Rowan and
Jacobs articulate the different avenues through which the self
informs therapy, and how each can be used to improve therapeutic
effectiveness. Along the way the authors provide a masterful
exposition of transference, countertransference, and projective
identification, throwing much needed light on topics that have long
been mired in controversy and confusion.The book is a priceless
resource for experienced therapists and those just beginning the
journey."
- Professor Sheldon Cashadan, author of Object Relations Therapy
and The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales
"Outstandingly in the current literature, this book meets the
conditions for integrative psychotherapy to fulfil its undoubted
potential as the therapy pathway of the future. Much has to change
in our field. First, people have to become better informed and more
respectful of other traditions than their own, engaging with all
kinds of taboo topics. Next, vigorous but contained dispute has to
take place without having a bland synthesis as its goal. Finally,
the current situation in which 'integration' runs in one direction
only - humanistic and transpersonal therapists learning from
psychoanalysis - has to be altered. Rowan and Jacobs, each a master
in his own field, have done a wonderful collaborative job. The
book's focus on what different ways of being a therapist really
mean in practice guarantees its relevance for therapists of all
schools (or none) and at every level."
- Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of
Essex and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies, Goldsmith's
College, University of London
"There is no question in psychotherapy more important than the
degree to which the practitioner should be natural and spontaneous.
Would it be sensible to leave one's ordinary, everyday personality
behind when entering the consulting room and adopt a stance based
on learned techniques? This is the question addressed by Rowan
& Jacobs in The Therapist's Use of Self, approaching it from
various angles and discussing the relevant ideas of different
schools of thought. The authors are very well-infomred and write
with admirable clarity, directness and wisdom and have made an
impressive contribution to a problem to which there is no easy
solution."
- Dr. Peter Lomas, author of Doing Good? Psychotherapy Out of Its
Depth.
This book deals with what is perhaps the central question in
therapy - who is the therapist? And how does that actually come
across and manifest itself in the therapeutic relationship? A good
deal of the thinking about this in psychoanalysis has come under
the heading of countertransference. Much of the thinking in the
humanistic approaches has come under such headings as empathy,
genuineness, nonpossessive warmth, presence, personhood. These two
streams of thinking about the therapist's own self provide much
material for the bulk of the book - but other aspects of the
therapist also enter the picture, including the way a therapist is
trained, and uses supervision, in order to make fuller use of her
or his own reactions, responses and experience in working with any
one client.
The book is aimed primarily at counsellors and psychotherapists, or
trainees in these disciplines. It has been written in a way that is
accessible to students at all levels, but it is also of particular
value to existing practitioners with an interest in the problems of
integration.
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