Psychotherapist Revealed

Therapists Speak About Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy

Andrea Bloomgarden, Rosemary B. Mennuti, Andrea Bloomgarden, Rosemary B. Mennuti

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9781135892302
• Topic: Psicología
• Subtopic: Salud mental en psicología

In this edited volume, the real dialogue begins. Therapists speak openly and honestly about their self-disclosure practices, decisions and clinical dilemmas. Bloomgarden and Mennuti bring together research, training and tales from their clinical experience to illuminate lessons derived from their own journeys toward judicious, balanced self-disclosure practices. In a readable fashion, the stories highlight a variety of self-disclosure and boundary issues that occur in the course of psychotherapy. Numerous treatment modalities and clinical orientations are represented.

The collective wisdom offered through these stories, which includes suggested guidelines and a standard of care for good practice, will assist the reader in developing a better understanding of what it means to self-disclose appropriately, recognizing a flexible middle ground between "too much" and "too little" along with responsiveness to client need. The Freudian based taboo that rigidly warns against all self-disclosure is antiquated, and a more reasonable, balanced perspective is under way. As a psychotherapeutic community, including psychologists, social workers, art therapists, counselors, dance/movement therapists who are all represented in this book, it is time to talk openly about a balanced, judicious, and therapeutically appropriate approach to self-disclosure and boundaries. Bravely, that is exactly what the authors in this book have done.

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Index

A

Abandonment, fear of, 152, 155, 159

Accelerated experiential-dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), 87–88, 90–91, 92–93, 94– 97

Accidental self-disclosure, 34

Addictions

boundary crossings and, 141

case examples of, 135–148 (see also Case examples of addictions)

culture of, 102–103

home offices and, 142

models of, 135–138, 145–146

recovered therapists and, 277

Adolescents. See also Children

case examples of, 55–70, 101–109 (see also Case examples of eating disorders)

modeling appropriate behaviors for, 107–108, 113

needs of, 106–109

questions asked by, 102–103

resistance of, 44

Adult children of alcoholics, 137

Adversity of therapists. See Gottlieb, Dan; Therapist adversity

AEDP. See Accelerated experiential-dynamic psychotherapy

Affect. See Emotions

Affective communication. See also Emotions

completing cycle of, 90– 91

feedback and therapeutic alliance, 25

relational perspective on, 20, 21

Affirmation of clients, 93

African Americans, 172–173, 175–176, 187.

See also Journey of a relational therapist

Age and guidelines for self-disclosure, 310

Alcoholics Anonymous

addiction community of, 135–138

therapists and clients both attending, 140–141

treatment philosophy of, 102, 139–140

Alienation of therapists, 248–249

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, 183

Anger, disclosure guidelines on, 309

Anorexia nervosa

case examples of, 55–62, 199–203

structural family therapy for, 197–198, 204

turning points in psychotherapy and, 55– 62

Anticipatory empathy, 269–270, 272–273

Anxiety. See also Fear

case examples of, 115–133 (see also Case examples of obsessive-compulsive hoarding)

evaluative, 125, 126–127, 128

obsessive-compulsive d...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• About the Editors
• About the Authors
• Section I: Foundations
• Section II: Case examples by clinical orientation and clientele
• Section III: Interface of therapist and client ethnic/racial/cultural factors
• Section IV: Treatment variations
• Section V: Therapist losses and personal challenges
• Section VI: Supervision, best practice guidelines
• Index