ABSTRACT

In this volume, Boszormenyi-Nagy and Krasner provide a comprehensive, sharply focused guide to the clinical use of Contextual Therapy (CT) as a therapy rooted in the reality of human relationships. The authors describe a far-reaching trust-based approach to individual freedom and interpersonal fairness that makes possible a remarkably effective system of psychotherapy. Between Give and Take clearly delineates four basic dimensions of relational reality: factual predeterminants, human psychology, communications and transactions and due consideration or merited trust. It is this last dimension that is the cornerstone of CT. It builds on the realm of the "between" that reshapes human relationships and liberates each relating person for mature living.

part |37 pages

Premises

chapter |11 pages

The Challenge of the Therapy of Psychotics

Background of the Contextual Approach

chapter |8 pages

A Dialectic View of Relationship

The Development of the Contextual Approach

part |93 pages

Outlines of the Human Context

part |61 pages

Assessing the Context

part |36 pages

The Process of Therapy

chapter |11 pages

Rejunction

Reworking the Impasse

chapter |7 pages

Resistances

Obstacles to Therapeutic Progress

part |98 pages

Therapeutic Methods

chapter |28 pages

A Case Illustration

chapter |11 pages

Balance in Motion

Crediting

chapter |7 pages

Starting Therapy

chapter |32 pages

Multidirected Partiality

part |61 pages

Applications and Guidelines

part |15 pages

Therapists in Context