Being Empathic: A Companion for Counsellors

Details the indepth work on empathy originated by Carl Roger's within client-centered therapy. Provides a rigorous look at empathetic understanding through the merging of tradition with innovation. Includes quotes and extracts from Roger's throughout the text. British oriented. Softcover.

Forewords

v

About the author

xi

Introduction: The shape of this book

1

(6)

Prelude

7

(1)

Client-centred therapy: an overview

7

(4)

Client-centred therapy: a summary

11

(4)

Empathic understanding: origins and developments

15

(30)

In the beginning, there was the word

15

(1)

Dictionary corner

15

(1)

Then there was Carl Rogers

15

(7)

Objectivity

17

(1)

Respect for the individual

18

(1)

Self-understanding

18

(1)

Psychological knowledge

18

(1)

Predictable process

19

(1)

The capacity of the client

20

(1)

Client-centred therapeutic relationships

21

(1)

Somewhere in between

22

(11)

Internal frame of reference

22

(1)

External frame of reference

23

(1)

Empathy

24

(1)

A theory of therapy: if--then

24

(1)

Necessary and sufficient

24

(1)

The actualising tendency

25

(2)

Congruence

27

(2)

Unconditional positive regard

29

(1)

Accurate empathic understanding

30

(3)

Towards the end

33

(7)

Experiencing

34

(2)

From state to process

36

(3)

Intuition

39

(1)

Reciprocity

40

(1)

Gender

40

(1)

Summary

40

(5)

Empathic understanding is not a technique

45

(44)

Thou shalt not skill!

45

(2)

You don't know what you've got until you lose it

47

(21)

Acceptance and agreement

49

(3)

Challenging and confrontation

52

(1)

Diagnosis, evaluation and prognosis

53

(5)

Explaining, interpreting and normalising

58

(4)

Encouragement, rescuing, support and responsibility

62

(4)

Focusing, leading and suggestion

66

(2)

A brief journey into power

68

(18)

Mirroring, paraphrasing, reflecting and summarising

70

(3)

Praise and reassurance

73

(2)

Probing and questioning

75

(2)

Therapist self-disclosure

77

(5)

Transference and counter-transference

82

(3)

Uh-huh

85

(1)

Understanding about

85

(1)

Quack of all trades, master of none?

86

(2)

Summary

88

(1)

Empathising in action: an inter-view

89

(30)

Background to this inter-view

89

(1)

Empathy: an inter-view

90

(29)

Empathic understanding: in the necessary and sufficient conditions

119

(60)

For what we are about to receive

119

(60)

Empathy and contact

119

(16)

Empathy and client incongruence

135

(15)

Empathy and therapist congruence

150

(12)

Empathy and therapist unconditional positive regard

162

(7)

Empathy and empathic understanding

169

(1)

Empathy and client perception of therapist unconditional positive regard and empathic understanding

170

(6)

Summary

176

(3)

Empathic understanding and therapeutic process

179

(40)

Therapist be, client do

179

(17)

Experiencing of the potential self

187

(1)

The full experiencing of an affectional relationship

188

(2)

The liking of one's self

190

(1)

The discovery that the core of personality is positive

191

(2)

Being one's organism, one's experience

193

(3)

Therapist be

196

(15)

Congruence and process

197

(2)

Congruence: Fay, an illustration

199

(1)

Unconditional positive regard and process

200

(3)

Unconditional positive regard: Fay, an illustration

203

(1)

Empathic understanding and process

204

(6)

Empathy: Fay, an illustration

210

(1)

Client do

211

(8)

Afterwords

219

(4)

Bibliography

223

(4)

Index

227

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Being Empathic: A Companion for Counsellors and Therapists

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