Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing: A Holistic Relational Perspective on the Therapeutic Process

by Steven L. Stern

Book Overview

Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing is both a personal analytic credo and a multidimensional approach to thinking about clinical interaction. The book's central theme is that of analytic needed relationships--the science and art of co-creating unique, evolving relational experiences fitted to each patient's implicit therapeutic aims and needs.

Steven Stern argues that, while we need psychoanalytic theories to "grow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415707897
• ISBN13: 9780415707893
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"