ABSTRACT
In the last decade a wealth of literature on the therapist’s use of self in therapy has been produced. Therapy methods have moved away from the idea that therapy is made up of standardized tools used in the same way by every therapist. Increasingly, the subjective experience of the therapist and the differences between therapists in personality, race, gender, and ethnicity have all been part of a push to see the therapist’s self as part of the therapy procuress. The postmodern perspective has raised therapists’ awareness of their own construction of therapy and the idea today is that the therapist’s self is always in interaction in the therapy process. Also, with regard to couple therapy, the renewal of interest in the individual partner’s own attachment and object-relations has led to renewed thinking about the therapist’s self in couple therapy.
