Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology Volume 2

<p>The purpose of <i>A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology Volume II</i> 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.</p><p>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).</p><p><i>A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology Volume II</i> 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.</p>