Interpersonal Biofeedback in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

摘要

The idea that the patient-therapist relationship is at the core of change in psychotherapy hasfound broad consensus and ample empirical evidence in recent years (Norcross and Wampold,2011). Engaging in an efficacious relationship is part of being an expert therapist (Kramer andStiles, 2015), and while specific techniques are easily learnable, managing to “read the room” andto flexibly modulate the therapeutic response is still more an art than a science (McWilliams,2004). With this article, we present the theoretical foundations supporting the development of“interpersonal biofeedback” as a tool to enhance therapists’ awareness of unconscious interpersonalregulation dynamics.