ABSTRACT
Our discussion of therapist involvement has taken us inevitably into the “in between,”—the domain that belongs exclusively neither to therapist nor client. Involvement is a part of the relationship and thus belongs to both participants. Having said this, however, we return to the fundamental tenet of psychotherapy, the ethic that supersedes all others: everything about this relationship and what happens as it develops is in the service of the client. Even though our therapeutic involvement has to do with our own genuine feelings and responses, and even though it is a process of the in-between, it is nevertheless focused on the client’s welfare.
