Exploring In-Session Focus on the Patient-Therapist Relationship: Patient Characteristics, Process and Outcome

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 187-202

  Kuutmann, Klara ^a   Hilsenroth, Mark J ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interpersonal problems; Object relations; Psychodynamic psychotherapy; Rupture; Therapeutic relationship; Transference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 83755213055     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.743     Document Type: Article

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