Completely updated with greater discussion of ethics and countertransference, the new edition of Between Therapist and Client is essential reading for those in psychotherapy both therapist and client. Beginning with Freud's discovery of transference, Kahn traces the history of the clinical relationship from Carl Rogers' introduction of humanistic concerns through Merton Gill's theory and technique of transference analysis, to the pioneering work of Heinz Kohut, who has most successfully brought together psychoanalytic and humanistic thought. When analyses of variance were computed exploring the relationships with the length of treatment (the number of sessions attended by the client), there was a surprising finding that the age of the therapist ( F = 6. It has already been demonstrated that there is a relationship between a therapist's modality structure and his or her adherence to a particular camp of psychotherapeutic thought.

This was one of the major causes of the high dropout rate: many clients chose to not participate, regardless of the clinician's interest. Uncorrected raw SPI modality scores have been found to be predictive of clients' symptomatology, as measured by BSI symptom scores, but SPI modality scores corrected for elevation and scatter have not.In these analyses, it was observed that dropout could not be predicted by D 2, D′ 2, or D″ 2 statistics or by most therapist demographic data. Reading it for a program in which I am enrolled at John Carroll University in counseling and spiritual wellness. A good exploration of the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship, explained simply but introducing profound issues about getting the right balance between counsellors/psychotherapists and clients i. The study of the effects of therapist–client matching of personality variables is not new to the science of psychotherapy.

The more similar the therapist and client, the lower the degree of reported psychopathology at psychotherapy outcome.The implications of these findings are that psychotherapists are likely to employ specific techniques that are consistent with their own modality structures and clients, likewise, are apt to see techniques consistent with their own modality structures as more pertinent to their issues. A professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he presently maintains a private practice and also trains psychotherapists as the director of a counseling center at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. I think there is something in this book for everyone, psychoanalysts, cognitive behavioral therapist and therapists from any other orientation.

Correlations between the BSI and the Symptom Checklist–90 (SCL-90) are high enough that the BSI can be considered interchangeable with the SCL90, sharing the same reliability and validity characteristics. As he traces the history of the clinical relationship from Freud to the present, Kahn shows how the enmity between the humanists and the psychoanalyts 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. See their chapter 9 for a comprehensive discussion of therapist–client personal and personality matching in the optimization of psychotherapy outcome. There was some indication, based on the computed regression lines, that in the case of extreme dissimilarity, clients might even report increased symptoms after a course of psychotherapy. I would recommend this book to clients seeking to understand the "rules" of therapy as much as to new therapists (and therapists-to-be).Multimodal therapy 19 explains human functioning in terms of seven independent yet interactive dimensions, referred to by the acronym BASIC-I. Given the high dropout rate encountered in this study, some post hoc analyses were conducted to explore the relationship between therapist–client similarity on the SPI and dropout, as well as between several of the demographic variables and dropout. Much of the support favoring dissimilarity comes from the perspective that psychotherapy is an educational experience. ie: the very relationship between the client and therapist is the most ripe place for curiosity and analysis. Therapist–client similarity was not found to be predictive of clients' initial levels of psychopathology in analyses of intake GSI scores ( R = 0.