In The Search for a Relational Home, Chris Jaenicke gives the reader an inside view of what actually happens in psychotherapy and how change occurs. He describes how both participants – the patient and the therapist – feel, and how they affect each other. The reader is encouraged to vicariously partake in the process from the perspective of his or her own life experiences.
Key Features
- Explores the nature of therapeutic action through a radicalised version of intersubjective systems theory.
- Demonstrates how psychotherapy results from a personal encounter between two unique human beings.
- Provides insights into the transformation required from both the patient and therapist for effective psychoanalysis.
- Clarifies the roles of successes, failures, strengths, and weaknesses in the psychotherapeutic process.
- Includes theoretical and practical guidelines for supervision.
Additional Information
The Search for a Relational Home also provides theoretical and practical guidelines for supervision. Jaenicke presents here a unique approach to the process of psychotherapy which will be vital reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and those in training as well as students in all fields of mental health.