Articles about Technique

What are the core competencies that form and inform the conducting of a relational psychoanalysis?

“Teach them?” I responded. “About what, fear and helplessness?” I was thinking that the first phone call terrified everyone in the school and. once the news of the call s...

What if anything distinguishes analytic work from other psychotherapeutic treatments.

The continuities, breaks and meeting points between Jungian and Relational Psychoanalytical currents of psychoanalytic thought and their ideas of the self.

I received a call from a businessman about his 14-year-old son. It was urgent... Otherwise emotionally engaged individuals may exhibit a flatness of expression where thei...

The truth-telling function of both poetry and psychotherapy. And in particular, the helping to bear the truth that each can entail.

Psychotherapy, i.e. therapy of the word, addresses both the inward and the outward realms in a person’s life.

I have found that clinical work undertaken when Meltzer’s aesthetic conflict spontaneously rises to the foreground as a compass inevitably shares the poetic and dramatic ...

The technological revolution and it profound effect on contemporary culture.

Building on C. G. Jung's early understanding of dance as a form of active imagination, Dreamdancing (Stromsted 1984) brings together the inner world of body sensation, fe...

Confronting silence in the practice of psychotherapy

Session vignette that illustrates the use of Parts Work using the Internal Family Systems model to cultivate self-compassion in the healing of Childhood Emotional Neglect...