ABSTRACT
Psychotherapy needs to be grounded and talk about psychotherapy needs to be grounded as well. Chapter 3 laid out some basic Jungian conceptions about the therapeutic relationship; this chapter continues in that mode but also moves from the general overview to some particular realities of the therapeutic relationship. If the therapeutic relationship is the key to psychotherapy, what are its components, how does it get set up, how does it shift at different stages, how is it affected by the various things that come up in and out of therapy? This chapter will look at such processes within the therapeutic relationship and follow the therapist-patient dyad as it evolves from preliminaries to aftermath, with emphasis primarily on the earlier aspects because they can be prescribed ahead of time to a certain degree. The description here will oscillate somewhat between the viewpoints of the two participants but concentrate more on the therapist than patient, in keeping with this book’s focus.
