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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