Petruska Clarkson

This text provides coverage of the uses and abuses of the therapeutic relationship in counselling, psychology, psychotherapy, and related fields. It provides a framework for integration, pluralism, or deepening singularity with reference to five kinds of therapeutic relationship potentially available in every kind of counselling or psychodynamic work. The work incorporates training and supervision perspectives, and examples of course design,...

On Psychotherapy, which has been reprinted three times, has become something of a classic. It drew together some of Petruska Clarkson's best writings on the practice of psychotherapy, and its processes and outcomes. Eight years later, Professor Clarkson has again selected some of her most innovative, thoughtful and seminal writings to form a second volume.