Therapeutic Relationships

Learning about Mental Health Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 439-461

  Stickley, Theo ^a   Freshwater, Dawn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intrinsic domain and Extrinsic domain; Personality and conversational habits; Psychodynamic theory; Re stimulated unresolved feelings; Therapeutic relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957912450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470699300.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

References (17)

1. Maslow, A.H. (1954) Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper & Row.
2. Rogers, C. (1961) On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy. London: Constable.
3. Jung, C.G. (1966) The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
4. Jung, C.G. (1989) Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffé; translated from the German by Richard & Clara Winston. New York: Vintage Books.
5. These ideas have been applied to mental health practice by professors Phil Barker (nursing) and David Brandon (social work): Barker, P. (1996) Working with mental distress. Nursing Times, 10 Jan: 25-7.
6. Brandon, D. (1999) A necessary madness: The role of the wounded healer in contemporary mental health care. Mental Health Care, 21(6): 198-200.
7. Brandon's classic text on social work practice is valuable reading: Brandon, D. (1990) Zen in the Art of Helping. London: Penguin.
8. The seminal work of Carl Rogers brought person-centred therapy into the helping professions. His books have been hugely influential in education and all of the helping professions: Rogers, C. (1951) Client-Centred Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory. London: Constable.
9. Rogers, C. (1961) On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy. London: Constable.
10. For her, the therapeutic relationship was central to mental health practice. Her seminal work is as relevant today as it ever was: Peplau, H. (1988) Interpersonal Relations in Nursing (2nd edn). Basingtoke: Macmillan.
11. The following is a useful article for understanding the history of therapeutic relationships: O'Brien, A.J. (2001) The therapeutic relationship: Historical development and contemporary significance. Journal of Psychiatric andMental Health Nursing, 8(2): 129-37.
12. Ellis, A. (1962) Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press.
13. Ellis, A. (1979) A New Guide to Rational Living. Hollywood, CA: Wilshire.
14. Jacobs, M. (2006) The Presenting Past: The Core of Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy (3rd edn). Maidenhead: Open University Press.
15. Maslow, A.H. (1954) Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper & Row.
16. Skinner, B.F. (1993) About Behaviorism. London: Penguin.
17. Skinner, B.F. (2002) Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Cambridge: Hackett.