Between Therapist and Client

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Great overview of Freud, Gill, and Kohut with an eye toward the practical implications within a practice.

Straightforward in its approach, the Structural Profile is a quick and easy way to obtain a general and global picture of a client's modality functioning. ie: the very relationship between the client and therapist is the most ripe place for curiosity and analysis. It is so easy to read and understand and a great introduction to what can happen between therapist and client. It was expected, given the work of Mendelson and Geller, 9 that therapist–client dissimilarity (D″ 2 scores) would predict dropout rates. According to this theory, certain therapist personality variables, differentiable through the administration of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, could predict outcome efficacy with neurotic versus psychotic patients.D″ 2 scores are computed by subtracting the client modality scores from the therapist modality scores, squaring the differences, and adding them together: D″ 2 = (B″ t – B″ c) 2 + (A″ t – A″ c) 2 + (S″ t – S″ c) 2 + (I″ t – I″ c) 2 + (C″ t – C″ c) 2 + (I.

As he traces the history of the clinical relationship from Freud to the present, Kahn shows how the enmity between the humanists and the psychoanalysts limited their therapeutic effectiveness -- and how their recent reconciliation has opened up exciting new possibilities for the way therapists relate to clients, pointing to a promising new period in the history of psychotherapy. Although there were no enforcement mechanisms to ensure that therapists would participate with their next new random client, many of the participants were recruited through training clinics where clinicians saw only one or two clients per year. Recently, however, the beginnings of a reconciliation between these traditions have opened new possibilities for the way therapists relate to clients.Clients were also informed that participation in this study would not alter the course or form of treatment that they would receive. For years, two major schools of thought have strongly disagreed about what the nature of that relationship should be. For this purpose, the SPI, the primary psychometric of multimodal therapy, was used to determine a measure of similarity. I can only agree wholeheartedly with some of the reviews on the back cover 'the valuable integration of humanistic psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis brings into exquisite focus the understanding of the therapist-patient relationship as the essential ingredient of therapeutic change'; ' an unexpected pleasure, readable at all levels .

To explore this question, 19 different therapist–client pairs were followed over 12 sessions of psychotherapy. Transference is an enormous source for discovery and learning and it seems very effective to deal with it in the session room. Because clients will be more likely to perceive and explain their own psychopathology in terms of their own modality functioning, 24 this would suggest that when clients and therapists are similar in their modality functioning, clients will perceive the psychotherapeutic interventions used as being more “on target” and thus more effective and pertinent in treating their issues. Consequently, for optimal treatment outcome, therapy must focus on the significant manifestations in all seven modalities. In a sense one could say there are two clients in the room, both with their templates, with one that hopefully is a bit more aware of it.A must-read for anyone that wants to build a therapeutic relationship with clients within a psychodynamic framework. found that when therapists and clients agreed in their recollections of which session events were important, psychotherapy sessions were generally rated as more effective by both clients and therapists. This study was designed to explore the importance of therapist–client similarity from the holistic and comprehensive viewpoint of multimodal therapy. Scale scores can range from 5 (indicating poor functioning in the modality area or a preference against using that sphere of functioning) to 35 points (indicating high functioning in the modality area or a preference to use that sphere of functioning, that is, a dominant modality).