ABSTRACT

How does the therapeutic frame help therapists in their practice?

The Therapeutic Frame in the Clinical Context examines some of the key issues inherent in the intimate and very often intense therapeutic relationship. It addresses and clarifies perspectives on the creation of a therapeutic environment that is conducive to therapy.

The book addresses specific aspects of the therapeutic frame. How does a client feel about unexpectedly meeting her psychotherapist's son or daughter? How does a psychotherapist or counsellor practice within a 'frameless', often intrusive environment, in acute hospital wards? How does a counsellor manage the frame in the face of a life-threatening illness?

Using a wealth of examples from clinical practice, The Therapeutic Frame in the Clinical Context examines these issues and more, in a range of settings including the NHS, private practice, and the workplace, and provides valuable guidelines from a range of theoretical perspectives, including Jungian and psychoanalytic.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

Reflections on the Therapeutic Frame

chapter |28 pages

Boundary Issues in Psychotherapy

From the Literal to the Figurative Frame

chapter |14 pages

Experiencing the Frame

Psychotherapy from a Client's Perspective

chapter |19 pages

You have been Framed

Maternity and the Male Psychotherapist

chapter |18 pages

We Must Stop Meeting Like this

Unplanned Contact Between Psychotherapist and Patient

chapter |12 pages

Broken Boundaries

Perverting the Therapeutic Frame

chapter |14 pages

Challenging Therapy

An Existential Perspective on the Frame

chapter |23 pages

‘The Exclusion Zone'

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Frame

chapter |25 pages

Hospital Philosophy

An Existential-Phenomenological Perspective

chapter |14 pages

Boundaries of Timelessness

Some Thoughts about the Temporal Dimension of the Psychoanalytic Space