The Invisible Matrix: An Exploration of Professional Relationships in the Service of Psychotherapy

by Sasha Brookes

Overview

This book is about the therapist's professional matrix, both visible and invisible. It is about how clinicians manage the web of professional connections that inform, control, bother and console us whilst we struggle with our client's inner world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781900877275
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2000
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword — The Invisible Matrix — Holding the Boundaries — The Task of Assessment — Relationships Cubed: Sharing Patients from an Individual Psychotherapist's Point of View — Splitting and Sharing in Concurrent Therapies — Cat's Cradle: Conjoint or Single Sessions in Couple Therapy — Combined Therapy—A Group Analytic Perspective — Square Dance: Invisible Matrices in Co-Therapy Couple Therapy — Working Together: Aspects of a Therapeutic Container at Work — The Private Public Therapist — The Supervisor as the Hidden Co-Therapist in Psychotherapy with Couples

Editorial Reviews

The editors, both psychotherapists in private practice in England, use the idea of the "invisible matrix" to describe the complex web of unspoken relationships within which both therapist and patient operate. The 11 essays written for this collection draw attention to the matrix to help therapists attend to the ways it affects their own and their patients' behavior. The contributors are therapists based in the UK and US. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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