I-Sharing on the couch: On the clinical implications of shared subjective experience

Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 59-70

  Pinel, Elizabeth C ^a   Bernecker, Samantha L ^b   Rampy, Nolan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

I sharing; Other; Self; Shared reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPATHY; EXISTENTIALISM; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; I SHARING; MINDFULNESS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE; THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930405242     PISSN: 10530479     EISSN: 15733696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038895     Document Type: Article

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