Choice Reviews Online · 1991 · 155 citations · 0 references
EducationCounselingPsychologyCounseling PsychologyCounseling TheoryPsychotherapyCounseling ProcessCounselor-client RelationshipHumanistic CounselingHumanistic PsychotherapyPsychodynamic PsychotherapyTherapeutic AllianceConsensusCounselor-client AllianceTherapist Neutrality
American psychotherapy has evolved over forty years, with psychoanalysts favoring neutrality and humanists advocating warmth, yet a new consensus is emerging that reconciles these positions. The book examines the nature of this emerging consensus and why it has become possible.
During the last forty years American psychotherapists have been relationship. Psychoanalysts have maintained that therapists should be cool and neutral; humanists have advocated a warm, engaged relationship. From Michael Kahn's point of view, something crucial has been lost on both sides of the debate. Now, a new consensus seems to be emerging. This book looks at the nature of that consensus and why it has become possible.