The purpose of A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, Volume II,
is to encourage clinical and personal reflection on the part of
reading clinicians, so as to foster more thought about the meaning
and complexities of the therapeutic encounter. It does so by
offering three clinical examples and a searching discussion of what
each might teach us about the case at hand, ourselves, and the
world. The book begins with an honest exploration of the
limitations accompanying any and every attempt to write about the
action of psychotherapy, which the first volume characterised as
ineffable. More particularly, it is suggested that the deepest
therapeutic phenomenon, experiential "proximity," is itself neither
fully observable to the participants nor capturable by a verbal
account. These concessions, which effectively confine the
therapeutic "mechanism" to the air of every encounter, threaten to
make descriptions of psychotherapy useless. However, while we can
never rightly describe the fundamental cause of change, we can
describe its observable corollaries. It is then suggested that
certain therapeutic postures-those of kindness, openness, and
sameness-facilitate the expansion of the other's cognitive
apparatus and thereby the "knowns" that inhabit their minds (the
main goal of therapy, per Volume I). A Humane Vision of Clinical
Psychology, Volume II, is valuable for therapists, psychologists,
psychiatrists, and other practitioners as well as graduate and
undergraduate students in the fields of psychiatry, psychology,
psychotherapy, mental health, social work, and philosophy.
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