'Being there' in the psychotherapeutic relationship: introduction.

摘要

Students of psychotherapy have long debated which element of the treatment is the critical one-interpretation and insight or the relationship between patient and therapist, often conceptualized as a corrective emotional experience with a new object or the therapist as container or holder of the patient's emotions. The two brief descriptions of psychotherapy in this month's "Introspections," with two very difficult although very different patients, point to a crucial element in the relationship-being there, being committed to the patient, and making clear that that commitment is unconditional. One therapist made clear that she would not abandon her patient as the patient feared progressive deafness.