Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Organisation of the Book -- Acknowledgements -- 1 What is Relational Integrative Psychotherapy? -- Being 'Relational' -- Embracing 'Integration' -- Challenges of Theoretical Integration -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- Part I Being and Doing Processes -- 2 Meeting and Contracting -- First Contact -- Problem Formulation and 'Storying' -- Use of Diagnostic Categories -- Treatment Planning -- Contracting -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 3 Engaging the Therapeutic Process -- Nurturing the Therapeutic Alliance -- Ensuring Safety -- Listening, Sensing and Making Sense -- Enabling Change -- Being Present to Relational Processes -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 4 Empathising and Attuning -- Empathy -- Attunement -- 'Empathic Attunement': A Rhythmic Dance -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 5 Holding, Containing and Boundarying -- Boundarying to Hold and Contain -- Defining the Nature of 'Holding' and 'Containing' -- Intrapsychic, Emotional and Intersubjective Holding-Containing -- The Shadow Side: Arguments Against Holding-Containing -- The Therapist as a 'Contained-Container' -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 6 Resourcing: Nurturing Skills and Mobilising Coping Strategies -- Identifying Resources -- The Value of Self-Help -- Nurturing Insight, Awareness and Self-Understanding -- Skills Development: Psycho-educational Interventions -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 7 Intuiting, Imagining and Interpreting -- Using Guided Imagery and Fantasy -- Engaging Metaphor -- Embodying a Felt Sense -- Utilising Dream Work -- The Relational Base of Imaginal Work -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 8 Challenging -- Robust-confrontative Challenging -- Analytic-strategic Challenging -- Gentle-empathic Challenging -- Tacit Challenging.

Key Principles of Effective Challenging -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 9 Integrating -- The Integrating Project: Levels of Integration -- Jayne's Story: Integrating Selves -- Kjell's Story: Integrating Experience -- Norbert's Story: A Transpersonal Integration -- Steven's Story: Healing through Relationship -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 10 Ending -- Deciding to End -- Working through Loss, Separation and Grief -- Embracing the 'Transition' into the World -- Stock-taking -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- Part II Theory Applied to Practice -- 11 Cognitively Orientated Therapy -- Principles Underlying the Cognitive Tradition -- Working in a Relational-integrative Way -- Evidence-based Practice? -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 12 Existential Phenomenology: Theory and Therapy -- Existential Phenomenology: 'Landmarks' in the Philosophical Territory -- The Phenomenological Attitude: 'Bracketing' and 'Being' -- Existential-phenomenological Therapy -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 13 Gestalt Theory and Therapy -- Theoretical Foundations Applied to Therapy -- The Gestalt Cycle -- Therapists' Being as 'Presence' -- Therapeutic Interventions -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 14 Relational Psychoanalytic Theory in Practice -- Transference -- Projective Identification -- Managing Transferences -- Owning Counter-transferences -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 15 Systemic Theory and Therapy -- A Systemic Perspective -- Applying a Systems View in Family Therapy -- Research on Family Therapy -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 16 Transactional Analysis -- The Three Ego States: PAC -- Developmental-relational Elaborations -- 'Drama Triangle' Dynamics -- Applying TA in Relational-integrative Ways -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- Postscript -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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