ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some ideas from the research, namely from the work of Edwin Shneidman, Michael Lambert, Lester Luborsky, Bruce Wampold, and Dan Rudofossi. It outlines the application of theory for crisis intervention and for psychotherapy, both officer-centered, with police. It is the core of what analysts have learned to be useful and life saving in the psychotherapy room with officers. Experience and research show that officers are reluctant to see psychologists, social workers, or psychiatrists. Psychotherapy has a long history. The intent of therapy with suicidal people is to reduce the person’s psychological pain. Person-centered or police officer-centered psychotherapy is derived from the focus on the individual—the individual in his entirety; that is, biological, psychological, sociological, and so on. The most ubiquitous common feature of therapies is the therapeutic relationship and consequently, for all imaginable studies of psychotherapy, all treatments would involve the therapist and the patient forming a relationship, making this a common feature.
